to Scrape APIquotes.toscrape.com ↗
Fetch quotes from Quotes to Scrape via the get_quotes endpoint. Returns quote text, author name, and subject tags in a single structured JSON response.
What is the to Scrape API?
The Quotes to Scrape API exposes 1 endpoint — get_quotes — that returns an array of quote objects, each containing 3 fields: the full quote text, the author's name, and an array of associated thematic tags. It returns the first 3 quotes from the page in a single call, with no input parameters required, making it straightforward to integrate into any pipeline that needs structured literary or motivational quote data.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/b152130a-3d1a-441f-be50-7c21991ea925/get_quotes' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Typed, relational, agent-ready
A generated client with real types, enums, and the links between objects — the structure a flat JSON response can't carry. Autocompletes in your editor and reads cleanly to coding agents.
- Fully typed · autocompletes
- Objects link to objects
- Typed errors & pagination
Typed Python client. Set up the SDK in your uv project, then pull this API’s typed client:
uv add parse-sdk uv run parse init uv run parse add --marketplace quotes-toscrape-com-api
uv run parse add --marketplace pulls a pinned snapshot of this canonical API — it won’t change underneath you. To customize it, subscribe and swap to your own copy.
"""Walkthrough: Quotes to Scrape SDK — fetch and display quotes."""
from parse_apis.quotes_toscrape_com_api import QuotesToScrape, ParseError
client = QuotesToScrape()
# Fetch all available quotes, capped at 5 total items
try:
for quote in client.quotes.list(limit=5):
print(f"{quote.author}: {quote.text}")
print(f" tags: {', '.join(quote.tags)}")
except ParseError as e:
print(f"Failed to parse quotes: {e.code}")
print("exercised: quotes.list")
Returns the first 3 quotes currently visible on the quotes page. Each quote includes the full quote text, author name, and associated tags. Makes a single request to the page.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"quotes": "array of quote objects, each containing text, author, and tags"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"quotes": [
{
"tags": [
"change",
"deep-thoughts",
"thinking",
"world"
],
"text": "“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"tags": [
"abilities",
"choices"
],
"text": "“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”",
"author": "J.K. Rowling"
},
{
"tags": [
"inspirational",
"life",
"live",
"miracle",
"miracles"
],
"text": "“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the to Scrape API
What the API Returns
The get_quotes endpoint returns a quotes array of up to 3 objects. Each object contains text (the full body of the quote as a string), author (the name of the person attributed with the quote), and tags (an array of strings categorizing the quote by theme — for example, "inspirational", "life", or "humor"). No input parameters are accepted; every call returns the same first 3 quotes from the page.
Response Shape
Each element in the quotes array follows a consistent structure: a text string, an author string, and a tags array of one or more lowercase keyword strings. Tags are applied editorially by the source site and vary in specificity — some are broad ("truth") and some are narrow ("attributed-no-source"). The author field is a display name, not a normalized identifier, so the same person may appear slightly differently across quotes on other pages.
Scope and Limitations
The endpoint covers only the first 3 quotes from the quotes listing page. The source site contains many more quotes across multiple pages, but pagination, author-specific pages, and tag-filtered views are not currently accessible through this single-endpoint API. There is also no search or filter parameter — you cannot request quotes by author, tag, or keyword from within the endpoint itself.
The to Scrape API is a managed, monitored endpoint for quotes.toscrape.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when quotes.toscrape.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official quotes.toscrape.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
Will this API break when the source site changes?+
Is this an official API from the source site?+
Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
What happens if I call an endpoint that has an issue?+
- Populate a daily quote widget using the
textandauthorfields fromget_quotes. - Build a tag-based categorization prototype using the
tagsarray returned per quote. - Test a frontend card component with realistic quote content before connecting a production data source.
- Seed a small quotes database with structured author and text data for development or demo purposes.
- Validate a data pipeline that ingests and stores tagged text objects.
- Generate sample content for a language model fine-tuning dataset that needs attributed text snippets.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 200 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
| Team | $300/mo | 20,000 | 300 req/min |
| Company | $1,000/mo | 100,000 | 500 req/min |
Each endpoint has a fixed posted price per successful call — most fall between 1 and 10 credits — shown on this API's page before you run it. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Quotes to Scrape have an official developer API?+
What exactly does the `get_quotes` endpoint return?+
quotes array containing up to 3 objects. Each object has a text field with the full quote string, an author field with the attributed name, and a tags field with an array of thematic keyword strings.Can I filter quotes by tag or author using this API?+
get_quotes endpoint accepts no input parameters, so results cannot be filtered by tag, author, or keyword. It always returns the same first 3 quotes from the default listing page. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add a filtering endpoint or a parameterized tag/author query.Does the API cover all quotes on the site, including paginated pages?+
How fresh is the quote data?+
get_quotes are unlikely to change often, but each API call fetches current data from the live page at the time of the request.