Quotable Quotes vs Quotes on Design

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.

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.