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Quotes to Scrape

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Quotes to Scrape (quotes.toscrape.com) as an API — paginated quotes with their authors and tags, plus full author profiles (birth date, birth place, biography). Generated from quotes.toscrape.com.

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Base URL
https://api.maviapi.com/v1/sites/quotes-toscrape
Version
3
Endpoints
0
Calls / 30d
GET/author

Initial release

Author profile looked up by name — name, birth date, birth location and biography.

Bearer auth. Pass your key as Authorization: Bearer <key> on every request.

Parameters

stringRequiredin query

Author display name as it appears on a quote (e.g. Albert Einstein, J.K. Rowling). The author-page slug (J-K-Rowling) is accepted too.

booleanOptionalin query

Bypass and repopulate the cache.

Response fields

dataobject
cachedboolean
sourcestring
Try itLive
GET
https://api.maviapi.com/v1/sites/quotes-toscrape/author?name=Albert%20Einstein&refresh=false
Request
curl "https://api.maviapi.com/v1/sites/quotes-toscrape/author?name=Albert%20Einstein&refresh=false" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MAVI_KEY"
Example507 B
{
  "data": {
    "found": true,
    "name": "Albert Einstein",
    "slug": "Albert-Einstein",
    "born_date": "March 14, 1879",
    "born_location": "in Ulm, Germany",
    "description": "In 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich by 1909. His 1905 paper explaining the photoelectric effect, the basis of electronics, earned him the Nobel Prize in 1921."
  },
  "cached": false,
  "source": "https://quotes.toscrape.com/author/Albert-Einstein/"
}

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