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Programming Quotes

Free, open-source REST API serving a curated collection of programming-related quotes. Public endpoints return random quotes, paginated lists, author filters, and single quote lookups; authenticated endpoints support voting, favoriting, and quote authorship (CRUD). Originally seeded from the skolakoda community project on GitHub, the API is widely used as a demo data source and a free data feed for developer portfolio sites, tutorials, CLIs, and IDE extensions.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Programming Quotes the way a machine reads it — 23 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Programming Quotes scores 39.7/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 17/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 39.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 19.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Programming Quotes

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Programming Quotes. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 1

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Programming Quotes

Public read endpoints (no auth) plus authenticated write endpoints over a MongoDB-backed corpus of programming quotes. Provides random quote lookups, paginated lists, author fil...

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Programming Quotes Context

6 classes · 12 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Programming Quotes API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Programming Quotes API Rules

42 rules · 15 errors · 24 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AuthRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AuthResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QuoteInput

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Quote

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QuoteUpdate

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoteInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 6

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Programming Quotes Auth Request Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Programming Quotes Auth Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Programming Quotes Quote Input Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Programming Quotes Quote Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Programming Quotes Quote Update Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Programming Quotes Vote Input Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 6

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Programming Quotes Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Programming Quotes — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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