Kanye.rest API

Base URL

https://api.kanye.rest

Authentication

No API key required.

Rate limit

No published limit.

Pricing

Free and open source.

CORS

Enabled — callable directly from browser JavaScript

Official docs

Read the docs

Every request below was executed against the live API on 19 Aug 2026, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

curl 'https://api.kanye.rest/'

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

import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.kanye.rest/", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

{
  "quote": "Who made up the term major label in the first place???"
}

quotestring

The quote text. That is the entire response.

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