#authors
3 APIs with this tag
Poetry API
A corpus of 2,500+ classic public-domain poems by 127 authors (Shakespeare, Keats, Dickinson, Whitman, Poe, Frost and many more), via the PoetryDB collection. Look up a poem by title or id and get its full text, line by line; browse every poem by an author (or list all authors); full-text search across titles, authors and lines; or fetch a random poem (optionally by author or capped to a number of lines, perfect for a poem-of-the-day). Ideal for literary apps, education, writing tools, daily-poem widgets and creative projects.
api.oanor.com/poetry-api
Quotes API
A collection of 1,600+ famous quotes from 600+ authors. Fetch a random quote (optionally filtered by author), look one up by id, search the full collection by text or author, and browse the author directory. Perfect for daily-quote widgets, dashboards, apps and inspiration features.
api.oanor.com/quotes-api
Books API
Search millions of books, look up editions by ISBN-10/13 and find authors — with covers, publish years, publishers, page counts and subjects. Powered by Open Library (Internet Archive).
api.oanor.com/books-api