Medium vs Quotes on Design

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.

Quotes on Design is a WordPress site publishing curated design-inspiration quotes, whose standard WP-JSON REST endpoints (quotesondesign.com/wp-json/) expose the full post archive as read-only JSON. A live GET against wp-json/wp/v2/posts returned a genuine paginated post list while echoing Access-Control-Allow-Origin back to the sent Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> yes; no key was required, reconfirming auth None. A fully free WordPress content API — pricingModel free.