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Programming Quotes API
Programming Quotes API for open source projects.
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Introduction
This open source API provides a large collection of programming quotes and their authors. These can be searched and favoured. This allows the citations to be filtered according to personal preferences. Quotes can also be edited, created and deleted.
Convention: Author names are as they are on Wikipedia.
Development
First, set env variable ProgrammingQuotesSecret to any string you like (but not too short).
Then, start the project locally:
dotnet build
dotnet watch run
Listening on: http://localhost:5000 and https://localhost:5001
API Documentation
GET /quotes (get all quotes)
GET /quotes/random (get random quote)
GET /quotes/5a6ce86f2af929789500e824 (get quote by id)
GET /quotes/author/Edsger W. Dijkstra (get quote by author)
You can also POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE. See Swagger docs for more.
Author info
You can use Wikipedia API for author's image and info.
To get author's image:
To get author info:
Note that you can change titles, pithumbsize and other params. The %20 character (as in Fred%20Brooks) is for empty space.