Quote Service

Overview

It's time to write an API that serves an assortment of quotes from famous people! The quotes will be scraped from a mock website, https://quotes.toscrape.com.

Your API will scrape all of the quotes from the above website and serve them via the following route:

HTTP method | Query                  | Response data
------------+------------------------+----------------------------------
GET         | /quotes                | all available quotes
GET         | /quotes?author=:author | all quotes by a particular author
GET         | /quotes?tag=:tag       | all quotes with a specific tag

Provide an additional route to handle requests for author information, also extracted in full from the quotes website:

HTTP method | Query               | Response data
------------+---------------------+-----------------------------------------
GET         | /authors            | biographical information for all authors
GET         | /authors?name=:name | biographical information for one author

All parameter strings will be matched exactly--there is no need to lowercase or otherwise manipulate these strings.

Response format

All requests should respond with status code 200 on success. Responses will consist of the following JSON structure:

{
  "data": [...]
}

In this structure, the actual response data (objects with properties described below) will be contained inside of the data array (which may be empty in the case of no content).

Quotes response JSON

For requests to one of the /quote routes, each member of the data array should be an object containing three properties: text, the string text of the quote; author, the string author of the quote; and tags, an array of strings representing all of the tags associated with the quote (if any tags exist). Here's an example response for a query to the /quote route (/quotes?tag=understanding, specifically) containing one quote:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "author": "Albert Einstein",
      "text": "“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”",
      "tags": [
        "knowledge",
        "learning",
        "understanding",
        "wisdom"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Authors response body JSON

The other route group consists of author biographical information which can be obtained for all authors via /authors, or for a specific author via /authors?name=:name.

For requests to an /authors route, each member of the data array should be an object containing four properties: name, the string name of the author; biography, the biography of the author; birthdate the birth date of the author; location, the birth location of the author.

Here's a potential response for a GET request to the route /authors?name=André%20Gide:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "name": "André Gide\n    ",
      "biography": "\n        André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even to the point of owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. His political activity is informed by the same ethos, as suggested by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR.    \n    ",
      "birthdate": "November 22, 1869",
      "location": "in Paris, France"
    }
  ]
}

Based on the above response, it's clear that some bodies will be quite large, which can make tracking down bugs and viewing diffs tedious. Additionally, the response's whitespace could use trimming. As a consequence, let's simplify responses for the purposes of this challenge.

Please call .trim() on every response field to remove leading and trailing whitespace. Additionally, call .slice(0, 50) on the biography and text fields (depending on whether we're returning an author biography or quote, respectively) to return only the first 50 characters. Specifically, use .trim().slice(0, 50) in that order for these two fields.

With this change, the above example response body becomes

{
  "data": [
    {
      "name": "André Gide",
      "biography": "André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and ",
      "birthdate": "November 22, 1869",
      "location": "in Paris, France"
    }
  ]
}

which is a bit more manageable.