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ZenQuotes
Pull inspirational quotes from ZenQuotes, the hand-curated quotation API.
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Actions
Steps a workflow can run in ZenQuotes.
- Get a random quoteGet one random quote from ZenQuotes, with its author, ready to post, and the attribution line the free tier asks for. Narrow it to one author or one keyword, or leave both empty to draw from the whole collection. ZenQuotes asks apps that post often to fetch a batch with Get quotes instead and reuse it.
- Get quotesGet a batch of random quotes from ZenQuotes, up to 50, optionally all matching one keyword. This is the call the service asks apps to make: it always answers with 50, meant to be kept and looped over locally and refreshed every hour or so, so a workflow that posts several quotes should take them from one batch rather than drawing one at a time.
- Get quotes by authorGet a batch of quotes by one author, up to 50, for a themed post or a page about them. The author can be picked from the dropdown, typed as a name or a tag, or chained from List authors. ZenQuotes documents this route beside its subscription, so a keyless connection may be answered with a message asking for a key, which the step reports as it was said.
- Get the quote of the dayGet the one quote ZenQuotes features today, the same for everyone who asks, with the date it is for. A new one is chosen at midnight US Central time, so a daily post scheduled after that never repeats yesterday's; ZenQuotes asks apps to fetch it once a day rather than on every view.
- List authorsList the authors ZenQuotes holds quotes by, each with the tag the author actions take and a link to their quotes, so a step can choose one here and hand the tag on. The service adds figures every month, so the list is fetched live rather than written down. ZenQuotes serves this list only to a connection with an API key; on the free tier the step reports the service's own message asking for one. Turn on custom to list the authors of the account's own custom quotes instead.
- List keywordsList the keywords ZenQuotes can filter quotes by, such as happiness, so a step can choose one here and hand it to Get quotes or Get a random quote. The list is the service's own and is fetched live. ZenQuotes serves it only to a connection with an API key; on the free tier the step reports the service's own message asking for one.
- Get what happened on this dayGet the notable events, births and deaths for a calendar day from ZenQuotes' On This Day feed, each with its year, a plain description and the Wikipedia links behind it. Leave the date empty for today, which is what a daily post wants, or pick any date to look up its anniversaries; the year is ignored. Keep just the categories you need and cap how many of each come back.
- Check service statusCheck whether ZenQuotes is answering, and how quickly. This is the one action that reports a problem as a value instead of failing the step, so a workflow can decide what to do about it. Being throttled on the free tier is reported separately from being down, and the answer says whether the connection carries an API key.
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