Poems by an author, or list all authors
API · /poetry-api
Poetry API
A corpus of 2,500+ classic public-domain poems by 127 authors (Shakespeare, Keats, Dickinson, Whitman, Poe, Frost and many more), via the PoetryDB collection. Look up a poem by title or id and get its full text, line by line; browse every poem by an author (or list all authors); full-text search across titles, authors and lines; or fetch a random poem (optionally by author or capped to a number of lines, perfect for a poem-of-the-day). Ideal for literary apps, education, writing tools, daily-poem widgets and creative projects.
API health
healthy- Uptime
- 100.00%
- Server probes · 24h
- Avg latency
- 73 ms
- Server probes · 24h
- Subscribers
- 3,277
- active
- Total calls
- 280
- last 7 days
Pricing
Pick a tier — billed monthly, cancel anytime.
Free
Free
- 6,000 calls / month
- 2 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 6,000 calls/month
- 2 req/sec
- Lookup + author + random
- No credit card
Starter
€4.50 /month
- 65,000 calls / month
- 8 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 65k calls/month
- 8 req/sec
- Full-text search
- Email support
Pro
€13.50 /month
- 320,000 calls / month
- 20 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 320k calls/month
- 20 req/sec
- Poem-of-the-day apps
- Priority support
Mega
€34.00 /month
- 1,500,000 calls / month
- 50 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 1.5M calls/month
- 50 req/sec
- Content platform
- Dedicated SLA
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Code snippets
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curl https://api.oanor.com/poetry-api/SOME_PATH \
-H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
const res = await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/poetry-api/SOME_PATH", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
const data = await res.json();
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/poetry-api/SOME_PATH");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
r = requests.get(
"https://api.oanor.com/poetry-api/SOME_PATH",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."},
)
print(r.json())
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