Medium vs Quotable Quotes

Medium's REST API lets a registered integration read a user's profile and publish posts on their behalf, gated behind an OAuth-issued integration token (Medium stopped issuing new integration tokens in 2023, but existing tokens still authenticate). A live GET against the real gateway, api.medium.com/v1/me, returned a genuine 401 "An access token is required" JSON error while carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving cors unknown -> yes and reconfirming OAuth auth in the same probe. No paid tier ever existed for the API itself — pricingModel free.

Quotable is a free, open-source REST API serving a large curated database of quotations, authors, and tags, documented as running at api.quotable.io. A live GET against that real gateway returned a genuine random quote while carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving cors unknown -> yes and reconfirming auth None in the same probe — but the host's TLS certificate expired in September 2024 (nearly two years ago), so standard certificate-verifying HTTP clients will reject the connection even though the backend itself still serves live, correctly-shaped data once verification is bypassed. Free and open source with no paid tier — pricingModel free.