aid: kanye-rest
name: kanye.rest
description: >-
  Free single-purpose REST API that returns random Kanye West quotes, dubbed
  "Kanye as a Service." Hosted on Cloudflare Workers, the API exposes a JSON
  endpoint, a plain-text endpoint, and a full-quotes-array endpoint. The
  underlying project is open source (MIT) under github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest
  and is a popular example of a minimal "fun" public API.
url: https://kanye.rest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-29'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-type: opensource
x-category: Personality
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: bulk-registered-from-public-apis
tags:
  - Personality
  - Quotes
  - Open Source
  - Cloudflare Workers
  - Public APIs
apis:
  - name: kanye.rest
    description: >-
      The Kanye REST API returns random Kanye West quotes. Three operations
      are exposed: a JSON quote endpoint at the root, a plain-text endpoint
      at /text, and a full-collection endpoint at /quotes returning all
      quotes as a JSON array. All endpoints are unauthenticated GETs with
      permissive CORS.
    humanURL: https://kanye.rest
    baseURL: https://api.kanye.rest
    tags:
      - Personality
      - Quotes
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://kanye.rest
      - type: SourceCode
        url: https://github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/kanye-rest-openapi.yml
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/kanye-rest-quotes.yaml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://kanye.rest
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest
  - type: License
    url: https://github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest/blob/master/LICENSE
    title: MIT License
  - type: CLI
    url: https://github.com/ajzbc/kanye.rest-cli
    title: kanye.rest-cli (archived)
  - type: PublicAPIsListing
    url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/kanye-rest-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/kanye-rest-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/kanye-rest-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kanye-rest-quote-schema.json
    title: Quote
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kanye-rest-quote-list-schema.json
    title: QuoteList
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/kanye-rest-quote-structure.json
    title: Quote
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/kanye-rest-quote-list-structure.json
    title: QuoteList
  - type: Example
    url: examples/kanye-rest-quote-example.json
    title: Quote Example
  - type: Example
    url: examples/kanye-rest-quote-list-example.json
    title: QuoteList Example
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/kanye-rest-rate-limits.yml
features:
  - name: Random Quote (JSON)
    description: Returns a single random Kanye West quote wrapped in a JSON object.
  - name: Random Quote (Plain Text)
    description: Returns a single random Kanye West quote as plain text, useful for shell pipelines.
  - name: Full Quote Collection
    description: Returns the complete array of available Kanye West quotes as JSON.
  - name: No Authentication
    description: All endpoints are publicly accessible with no API key or token required.
  - name: CORS-Enabled
    description: Responses include Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" so the API is callable from any browser.
  - name: Edge-Hosted
    description: Deployed on Cloudflare Workers, delivering responses from the global edge network.
useCases:
  - name: Hello-World API Demo
    description: Used widely in tutorials and bootcamp curricula as a zero-friction example of consuming a REST API.
  - name: Frontend Component Testing
    description: Lightweight fixture for testing fetch / loading / error states in UI frameworks without bringing up a backend.
  - name: Shell One-Liners
    description: The /text endpoint produces shell-friendly output for cron jobs, daily-quote scripts, and motd files.
  - name: Bot and Chatbot Integrations
    description: Plain-text quotes are easily injected into Slack, Discord, and Twitter bots.
integrations:
  - name: Cloudflare Workers
    description: API runtime — every request is served from a Cloudflare Worker at the edge.
  - name: GitHub
    description: Source of truth for the open source implementation and release history.
solutions:
  - name: Public-APIs Catalog Entry
    description: Registered in the community-maintained public-apis directory under the Personality category.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com