Quotes with receipts, one URL away

$ curl https://api.loving-universe.com/random
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

$ curl "https://api.loving-universe.com/random.txt?category=business"
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” — Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (1901)

$ curl "https://api.loving-universe.com/today?category=wisdom"
{
  "id": "buddha-hatred-ceases-by-love",
  "text": "For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.",
  "author": { "slug": "buddha", "name": "The Buddha" },
  "source": { "title": "The Dhammapada", "year": 1881, "locator": "v. 5", "translator": "F. Max Müller", … },
  "verification": "verified",
  "attribution": "The Buddha, The Dhammapada (1881)",
  …
}

const quote = await fetch("https://api.loving-universe.com/today?tz=Europe/Ljubljana")
  .then((r) => r.json());
console.log(quote.text, "—", quote.attribution);

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://api.loving-universe.com/embed/quote-loader.css" />
<div id="app-loader" data-lu-loader data-lu-placement="below">
  <div class="your-spinner"></div>
</div>
<script src="https://api.loving-universe.com/embed/quote-loader.js" defer></script>

{
  "id": "tagore-miss-the-stars",
  "text": "If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.",
  "author": { "slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "name": "Rabindranath Tagore" },
  "categories": ["hope", "wisdom"],
  "tags": ["perspective", "loss", "poetry"],
  "source": { "title": "Stray Birds", "type": "book", "year": 1916, "locator": "No. 6",
              "publisher": "Macmillan", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6524" },
  "verification": "verified",
  "rights": "public-domain",
  "length": 65,
  "url": "https://api.loving-universe.com/quotes/tagore-miss-the-stars",
  "attribution": "Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds (1916)"
}

$ curl -G https://api.loving-universe.com/verify \
    --data-urlencode "text=Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." \
    --data-urlencode "author=Albert Einstein"

{
  "verdict": "misattributed",
  "confidence": 1,
  "claimed_author": "Albert Einstein",
  "actual_author": null,
  "finding": "There is no evidence Einstein said or wrote this. The earliest known uses come from 1981 in Al-Anon and Narcotics Anonymous settings, and the link to Einstein appeared many years after his death.",
  "references": ["https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/"]
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "loving-universe": { "url": "https://api.loving-universe.com/mcp" }
  }
}

$ claude mcp add --transport http loving-universe https://api.loving-universe.com/mcp