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      "text": "\n      “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”\n    \n ",
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      "text": "\n      “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”\n    \n ",
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      "name": "\n              Science Quotes\n"
    },
    {
      "id": 30,
      "url": "/quotes/tag/motivational-quotes",
      "name": "\n              Motivational Quotes Quotes\n"
    }
  ],
  "lastScraped": "2026-06-15T00:43:00Z"
}

Quotes Home

Scrapes featured and popular quotes from the Goodreads quotes home page using the quotes home URL. Returns a curated collection of trending and highlighted quotes across all topics.

Request

Method: POST
URL: {{Instance Domain}}/api/quotes/home

Headers

Key	Value	Description
Content-Type	application/json	Indicates the request body is JSON

Body

Field	Type	Required	Description
queryURL	string	Yes	The full Goodreads quotes home page URL to scrape (e.g. `https://www.goodreads.com/quotes`)

Example Body:

{
  "queryURL": "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes"
}

Response

200 Success

Returns a JSON object containing featured and popular quotes from the Goodreads quotes home page.

{
  "status": "Received",
  "statusCode": 200,
  ...
}

Response Field Descriptions

Field	Type	Description
status	string	Human-readable status message
statusCode	number	HTTP status code of the response
quotes	array	List of featured/popular quotes, each with quote text, author, source book, and like count

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

queryURLstringRequiredformat: "uri"

Response

statusstring

sourcestringformat: "uri"

scrapeURLstringformat: "uri"

namestring

quoteslist of objects

popularTagslist of objects

lastScrapeddatetime