palemoky/chinese-poetry-api

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A high-performance Go-based API service serving nearly 400,000 classical Chinese poems (Tang, Song, Yuan, etc.) with both REST and GraphQL interfaces. It supports full-text search, filtering by author/dynasty/genre, random poem selection, and simplified/traditional Chinese conversion, deployable via Docker.

Use cases

• fetch random classical Chinese poems for an app
• search Chinese poetry by keyword, author, or dynasty
• get Tang and Song dynasty poems via a free API
• serve simplified or traditional Chinese poem text
• build a poetry learning or quote-of-the-day feature
• practice web scraping against a public API
• self-host a Chinese literature data API

When to choose

• you need a ready-made API of classical Chinese poetry with search and filtering
• you want both REST and GraphQL access to poem data
• you need simplified/traditional Chinese output from one service
• you want a Docker-deployable, self-hostable poetry API

When to avoid

• you need modern Chinese or non-Chinese literature content
• you need a general-purpose full-text search engine rather than a poetry API
• you require permissive licensing for derivative products (GPL-3.0)
• you need poem translations or annotations

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api-framework http-server search-engine graphql web-scraping rate-limiting apis education self-hosted web-development go self-hosted cross-platform chinese-poetry classical-chinese-literature rest-api simplified-traditional-chinese tang-poetry song-ci open-data natural-language-processing docker web-server

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