Stromberg API

A free, key-free API for the German sitcom Stromberg: quotes joined to the character who said them and the episode it came from, plus full cast and episode collections.

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Endpoint tested and returned HTTP 200 on 2026-08-21

What is the Stromberg API?

The Stromberg API is a free, key-free REST API for the German comedy series Stromberg. It serves quotes, characters, episodes and seasons, with each quote optionally joined to the character who said it and the episode it appeared in, returned as nested objects in the same response.

What lifts this above the usual show-quote endpoint is that it is a small relational dataset rather than a list of strings. A quote record carries `character_id` and `episode_id`, and where those are populated the API embeds the full character and episode objects alongside — so one call to `/api/quotes/random` can return the line, a biography of Bernd Stromberg, and the episode it came from. There are also standalone `/api/characters` and `/api/episodes` collections if you would rather browse than shuffle.

The important caveat is that those joins are frequently empty. Attribution is incomplete across the corpus: many quotes have `character_id` and `episode_id` set to null, and consequently `character` and `episode` come back as null too. Two consecutive random calls can return quite different response shapes, which is exactly the sort of thing that breaks a naive client. Destructure defensively. The content is entirely in German — Stromberg is the German adaptation of The Office, and the humour does not survive machine translation — so this suits a German-language project rather than an international one.

Quick facts

Base URL: https://stromberg-api.de/api
Authentication: No key or account.
Rate limit: 60 requests per minute, reported in `X-RateLimit-Limit` and `X-RateLimit-Remaining`.
Pricing: Free.
CORS: Enabled — callable directly from browser JavaScript
Official docs: Read the docs

How to use the Stromberg API

Every request below was executed against the live API on 2026-08-21, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

1. Fetch a random quote

GET https://stromberg-api.de/api/quotes/random

curl

curl 'https://stromberg-api.de/api/quotes/random'

JavaScript (fetch)

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

Python (requests)

import requests

res = requests.get("https://stromberg-api.de/api/quotes/random", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

Response — HTTP 200

{
  "id": 55,
  "quote": "Karriere ist kein Plattenbau, Karriere ist 'ne Pyramide. Da wird der Platz oben knapp! Deswegen haben die alten Ägypter auch zigtausende Jahre durchgehalten, aber die Ossis eben nur 40.",
  "slug": "karriere-ist-kein-plattenbau-karriere-ist-ne-pyramide-da",
  "episode_id": null,
  "character_id": null,
  "created_at": "2024-06-01T17:41:42.000000Z",
  "updated_at": "2024-06-01T17:41:42.000000Z",
  "character": null,
  "episode": null
}

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`resource`	path segment	Required	`quotes`, `characters`, `episodes` or `seasons`. `quotes`
`random`	path segment	Optional	Append `/random` to a collection for a single random record. `random`
`id`	path segment	Optional	Fetch one record by numeric id. `26`

Response fields

idinteger: Quote id.
quotestring: The line itself, in German.
slugstring: URL-safe form of the quote, truncated.
character_id / episode_idinteger or null: Foreign keys. Null on a large share of quotes, where attribution was never recorded.
characterobject or null: The embedded character record when `character_id` is set — name, slug, age and a description. Null otherwise.
episodeobject or null: The embedded episode record when `episode_id` is set. Null otherwise.
created_at / updated_atstring (ISO 8601): Laravel timestamps. The dataset has not changed since mid-2024.

What you can build with the Stromberg API

Add a quote of the day to a German-language site
Build a browse-by-character quote explorer
Cross-reference quotes with the episodes they came from
Practise defensive handling of optional nested relations

Common errors and how to fix them

Cannot read property of null

`character` and `episode` are null on many quotes.

Fix: Check both before destructuring. Two consecutive random calls will genuinely return different shapes.

429

You exceeded 60 requests in a minute.

Fix: Read `X-RateLimit-Remaining`. The dataset is static, so caching removes essentially all of your traffic.

301 redirect from the www host

`www.stromberg-api.de` forwards to the apex domain.

Fix: Call `https://stromberg-api.de` directly and save yourself the extra round trip.

Empty attribution across a whole page

Coverage of character and episode links is patchy by dataset, not by request.

Fix: If attribution matters, filter to quotes where `character_id` is non-null rather than expecting the join to be there.

Stromberg API — frequently asked questions

Is the Stromberg API free?

Yes, free with no key or account, limited to 60 requests per minute per IP with the budget reported in response headers.

Are the quotes in German?

Yes, entirely. Stromberg is the German adaptation of The Office and the writing is very specific to German office culture — machine translation flattens most of what makes it funny.

Why are `character` and `episode` sometimes null?

Because attribution is incomplete in the source dataset. Where `character_id` or `episode_id` was never recorded, the corresponding nested object is null. Guard for it — the response shape genuinely varies between calls.

What else can I fetch besides quotes?

There are standalone collections for characters, episodes and seasons, so you can browse the cast or the episode list directly rather than discovering them through quotes.

Tools that pair with this API

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Stromberg API is an independent third-party service and is not affiliated with ByteTools or ByteVancer. Details on this page were verified on 2026-08-21; always check the official documentation before relying on this API in production, as terms and limits can change.