FavQs API

Base URL

https://favqs.com/api

Authentication

Quote of the day needs no auth. Search and user features require a free API key sent as a Token header.

Rate limit

No published hard limit on the public endpoint.

Pricing

Free.

CORS

Not enabled — call it from your server

Official docs

Read the docs

Every request below was executed against the live API on 20 Aug 2026, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

curl 'https://favqs.com/api/qotd'

const res = await fetch("https://favqs.com/api/qotd");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://favqs.com/api/qotd", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

{
  "qotd_date": "2026-08-20T00:00:00.000+00:00",
  "quote": {
    "id": 64528,
    "dialogue": false,
    "private": false,
    "tags": [],
    "url": "https://favqs.com/quotes/natasha-yakovleva/64528-life-without--",
    "favorites_count": 3,
    "upvotes_count": 0,
    "downvotes_count": 0,
    "author": "Natasha Yakovleva",
    "author_permalink": "natasha-yakovleva",
    "body": "Life without fun is too boring."
  }
}

qotd_datestring

The date this quote of the day applies to.

quote.bodystring

The quote text.

quote.authorstring

Who said it.

quote.tagsarray

Topic tags.

quote.urlstring

Permalink on FavQs.

quote.favorites_countinteger

How many users favourited it.

• Show a quote of the day on a homepage or dashboard
• Send a daily inspirational quote by email or Slack
• Search quotes by theme for a content feature
• Replace an integration broken by Quotable going offline

If FavQs does not fit, these entertainment apis cover similar ground. Every one was called before publishing, and each links to its own reference page with a working curl command and the response it returned.