/v1/authors
Author directory with quote counts
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curl "https://api.oanor.com/quotes-api/v1/authors" \ -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/quotes-api/v1/authors", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/quotes-api/v1/authors");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
"https://api.oanor.com/quotes-api/v1/authors",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)
Example response
A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.
{
"data": {
"count": 50,
"total": 675,
"authors": [
{
"author": "Buddha",
"quotes": 56
},
{
"author": "Byron Pulsifer",
"quotes": 41
},
{
"author": "Confucius",
"quotes": 37
},
{
"author": "Ralph Emerson",
"quotes": 36
},
{
"author": "Lao Tzu",
"quotes": 35
},
{
"author": "Richard Bach",
"quotes": 32
},
{
"author": "Albert Einstein",
"quotes": 27
},
{
"author": "Wayne Dyer",
"quotes": 25
},
{
"author": "Napoleon Hill",
"quotes": 25
},
{
"author": "Dalai Lama",
"quotes": 23
},
{
"author": "Epictetus",
"quotes": 21
},
{
"author": "Abraham Lincoln",
"quotes": 17
},
{
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe",
"quotes": 16
},
{
"author": "Marcus Aurelius",
"quotes": 16
},
{
"author": "Carl Jung",
"quotes": 14
},
{
"author": "Tony Robbins",
"quotes": 14
},
{
"author": "Bruce Lee",
"quotes": 14
},
{
"author": "William Shakespeare",
"quotes": 13
},
{
"author": "Aristotle",
"quotes": 12
},
{
"author": "Winston Churchill",
"quotes": 12
},
{
"author": "Benjamin Disraeli",
"quotes": 11
},
{
"author": "Seneca",
"quotes": 10
},
{
"author": "Thich Nhat Hanh",
"quotes": 10
},
{
"author": "Mark Twain",
"quotes": 10
},
{
"author": "Mother Teresa",
"quotes": 10
},
{
"author": "Eleanor Roosevelt",
"quotes": 9
},
{
"author": "Helen Keller",
"quotes": 9
},
{
"author": "Oprah Winfrey",
"quotes": 9
},
{
"author": "Chinese proverb",
"quotes": 8
},
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