# Ron Swanson Quotes

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ron-swanson-quotes/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

A community-built, open source HTTP API that returns Ron Swanson quotes from the NBC television series Parks and Recreation. Returns one or more quotes per request as a JSON array of strings, with an optional case-insensitive full-text search over the quote corpus. The service is a small Node.js / TypeScript Express app authored by James Wright and hosted on Heroku.

## Kin Score — 34.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.5 from 34.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 65.7 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 53.6 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **Ron Swanson Quotes Quotes API** — Read-only operations that return one or more Ron Swanson quotes from the static quote corpus.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ron Swanson Quotes Agentic Access** — 3 operations

## Security (1)

- **Ron Swanson Quotes Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · DNSSEC

## Use cases (6)

- **API Tutorial Fixture** — Widely used in beginner Node.js, JavaScript, and HTTP tutorials and bootcamp coursework as a friendly, no-auth public API to learn fetch, async/await, and JSON parsing.
- **Voice Assistant Skill** — Powers Alexa skills and other voice-assistant demos that deliver a Ron Swanson quote on request.
- **Chatbot Integration** — Supplies the underlying quote source for Hubot, Slack, and Discord bot examples (see hubot-swanson npm package by the same author).
- **Frontend Demo App** — CORS-enabled endpoint makes it suitable for in-browser SPA demos (React, Vue, Svelte) without requiring a backend proxy.
- **API Client Library Test Target** — Stable shape and no auth make it a practical test target for HTTP-client libraries and SDK generators.
- **Workshop and Conference Demo** — Used in conference talks and workshops to illustrate REST, OpenAPI-from-code, and API mocking concepts.

## Tags

Entertainment, Television, Parks and Recreation, Quotes, Open-Source, Public APIs, Node.js, TypeScript, Heroku, REST

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ron-swanson-quotes/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.