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Retrieve a quotation

Returns one quotation by id.

GET https://api.softon.dev/v1/quotes/{id} Copy

Parameters

ParameterTypeDescription
id required string The quotation id from a list response.

Request

curl https://api.softon.dev/v1/quotes/birjob:1766 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOFTON_KEY"

Response

The envelope is identical on every softon.dev API: data, meta, error. Only the shape inside data changes per dataset — see the response envelope.

{
  "data": {
    "id": "birjob:1663",
    "source": "birjob",
    "text": "Let us see what love can do.",
    "author": null,
    "category": "Love",
    "origin": "passiton",
    "ingested_at": "2026-08-06T07:29:46.646799Z"
  },
  "meta": { "request_id": "req_9Fv3" },
  "error": null
}

Fields of data

FieldTypeDescription
id string Stable identifier, "<source>:<source id>".
source string Which scraper delivered this quotation.
text string The quotation.
author string · nullable Attributed author. null where the collection does not name one.
category string · nullable The upstream's own label. A folksonomy, not an enum -- tens of thousands of distinct values -- so treat it as a tag rather than a fixed set.
origin string · nullable Where the quotation was collected from, e.g. "passiton". Distinct from source, which is the scraper that delivered it.
ingested_at timestamp When this version was stored.

Try it

v1 · stable
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