Quote API with node JS

As Winston Churchill once said: "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

Having almost completed all the content I want for my dashboard I decided to add a little more to the title which currently just says "Gally Home Dashboard". I remember back at my old Secondary School - de Ferrers Specialist Technology College we used to have an intranet that gave a "thought of the day." So I started looking at how I can add quotes to my dashboard.

Boring Title Page

Option 1: Create a JSON file that contains quotations I like.

var quotes= [{
 "name": "Winston Churchill",
 "quote": "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
},
...];

We can then access these quotes by accessing a random part of the array.

getQuote(randNo){
  var thisQuote = JSON.parse(quotes[randNo]);
  var returnString = thisQuote.name + ": " + thisQuote.quote;
  return returnString;
}

There are two downsides to this. 1. I'd have to populate a huge JSON 2. It would be full of quotes I already know and would leave me in a "quote bubble". Not very educational to the uneducated man.

Option 2: Don't reinvent the wheel. Use an API.
There are several APIs we can use;
 * Quotes on Design - This allows us to decide a filter on the order and the number of results.
JS:

$.getJSON("https://quotesondesign.com/wp-json/posts?filter[orderby]=rand&filter[posts_per_page]=1&callback=", function(a) {
  $("body").append(a[0].content + "<p>&mdash; " + a[0].title + "</p>")
});

Example from the webpage

Curl:

curl -X GET "https://quotesondesign.com/wp-json/posts?filter=rand&filter=1"

* Forismatic - Similar to quotes on design but also includes "expressions". Neither appears to have rate limits or need an authentication code to be used!
Results can come in
Curl:

curl -X GET "https://api.forismatic.com/api/1.0/?method=getQuote&key=&format=json&lang=en

The language can be set to english or russian (?)
key can be set to blank which gives a random quote.
response format comes in: json, jsonp, xml, html and plain text.

Output for english, random key and different formats:
html: 

<blockquote><strong><cite>We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. </cite></strong><br/><small>Aristotle <address></address></small><blockquote>

json:

{"quoteText":"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart. ", "quoteAuthor":"Blaise Pascal", "senderName":"", "senderLink":"", "quoteLink":"http://forismatic.com/en/b917914ba7/"}

text:

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you. (Eckhart Tolle) 

The second comes with a bit more freedom. In the end I made it match how I was doing requests throughout the rest of the dashboard (please see my other posts) and then self formatting to how I wanted it to look on the client side.

My Basic Flow:
 - Use request npm to match the curl command above (using json)
 - Send the json response to the client
 - Parse the json and format the output in the client JS

document.getElementById("randomQuote").innerHTML = quote.quoteAuthor + ": " + quote.quoteText; 

 - Some responses had no author, so we attribute them to "anon"

 if (quote.quoteAuthor === "") {
   quote.quoteAuthor = "Anon";
}

To what I believe are great results!

Any thoughts? Feel free to comment below.