Quotable

Quotable is free, open source quotations API. This package is built on top of Quotable project, to provide quick access to the quotable API directly into your project without calling any route yourself.

• Servers
• Installation
• Methods
  • Get random quote
  • List quotes
• Author
• Contributing

Servers

This package is directly connected to the Primary Server of the Quotable API.

Quotable provides two servers, Primary Server is always the more stable version, whilst staging gets features first.

Name	URL	Description
Staging	staging.quotable.io	Synced with the master branch of this repository (Not Available through this package)
Production	api.quotable.io	The primary API server

Installation

Using npm? Run the following command to install.

$ npm install quotable --save

In love with Yarn? Run the following command to install

$ yarn add quotable --save

Methods

In this version 1.1.0, only two methods are supported, but we're looking forward for more awesome way of fetching quotes from the quotable API.

All methods are available under the quotable object. Import the package in your project.

const quotable = require('quotable');

Get random Quote

Looking for a random quote for your project, want to greet user with some awesome but new quote everytime. Well this is the best way to achieve this.

Just call the getRandomQuote(), use the awesome async/await within your asynchronous functions.

const aNewQuote = await quotable.getRandomQuote();

console.log(aNewQuote);
/* 
{
    return: true
    //Request Succesfull
    _id: string
    // The quotation text
    content: string
    // The full name of the author
    author: string
    // The length of quote (number of characters)
    length: number
    // An array of tag names for this quote
    tags: string[]
}
*/

Not inside an asynchronous function? Pass a callback as the second argument to the getRandomQuote()

quotable.getRandomQuote({ /* Params here */}, (aNewQuote) => {
    console.log(aNewQuote);
    /* 
    {
        return: true
        //Request Succesfull
        _id: string
        // The quotation text
        content: string
        // The full name of the author
        author: string
        // The length of quote (number of characters)
        length: number
        // An array of tag names for this quote
        tags: string[]
    }
    */
});

You can get more control over the random quote you can get by passing the params as the first argument to getRandomQuote()

param	type	Description
maxLength	Int	The maximum Length in characters ( can be combined with minLength )
minLength	Int	The minimum Length in characters ( can be combined with maxLength )
tags	String	Filter random quote by tag(s). Takes a list of one or more tag names, separated by a comma (meaning AND) or a pipe (meaning OR). A comma separated list will match quotes that have all of the given tags. While a pipe (|) separated list will match quotes that have either of the provided tags.
authorId	String	Filter random quote by authorId(s). Takes a list of one or more authorId, separated by a pipe (meaning OR). A pipe (|) separated list will match quotes that have either of the provided authorId.
author	String	Filter random quote by author(s). Takes a list of one or more author names, separated by a pipe (meaning OR). A pipe (|) separated list will match quotes that have either of the provided author name.

|

For Example:

const aNewQuote = await quotable.getRandomQuote({minLength: 45, maxLength: 50});

console.log(aNewQuote);
/* 
{
    return: true
    //Request Succesfull
    _id: string
    // The quotation text
    content: string
    // The full name of the author
    author: string
    // The length of quote (number of characters) >=45 && <=50
    length: number
    // An array of tag names for this quote
    tags: string[]
}
*/

List Quotes

Get a paginated list of all quotes. This method supports several filter and sorting options. getQuotes() is used to list the quotes.

const quotes = await quotable.getQuotes() //inside an async function

console.log(quotes)
/*
{
  // The number of quotes returned by this request
  count: number
  // The total number of quotes matching this request
  totalCount: number
  // The index of the last quote returned. When paginating through results,
  // this value would be used as the `skip` parameter when requesting the next
  // "page" of results.
  lastItemIndex: number
  // The array of quotes
  results: Array<{
    _id: string
    // The quotation text
    content: string
    // The full name of the author
    author: string
    // The length of quote (number of characters)
    length: number
    // An array of tag names for this quote
    tags: string[]
  }>
}
*/

It supports various options, listed below

param	type	Description
authorId	String	Filter quotes by author ID.
limit	Int	Min: 1 Max: 100 Default: 20 The number of quotes to return per request. (for pagination).
skip	Int	Min: 0 Default: 0 The number of items to skip (for pagination).
maxLength	Int	The maximum Length in characters ( can be combined with minLength )
minLength	Int	The minimum Length in characters ( can be combined with maxLength )
tags	String	Filter quotes by tag(s). Takes a list of one or more tag names, separated by a comma (meaning AND) or a pipe (meaning OR). A comma separated list will match quotes that have all of the given tags. While a pipe (|) separated list will match quotes that have either of the provided tags.

Author

👤 Ashutosh Kumar

• Website: raxraj.github.io
• Twitter: @raxrajtwit
• Github: @raxraj

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check issues page. You can also take a look at the contributing guide.