Personality · head-to-head
Medium vs Stoicism Quote
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.
Stoicism Quote is a small serverless API (AWS Lambda + API Gateway) returning a single random Stoic quote and author as JSON, documented in its GitHub repo as running at the live host stoic.tekloon.net. A live GET against that real gateway, stoic.tekloon.net/stoic-quote, returned a genuine quote with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> no; no key was required, reconfirming auth None. A fully free, keyless hobby API — pricingModel free.
| Medium | Stoicism Quote | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | OAuth | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON |
| CORS | yes | no |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Stoicism Quote needs no API key, while Medium requires OAuth — pick Stoicism Quote to start without signup.