🗣 Quotes

The quotes widget can fetch quotes from multiple sources:

• By default, our open source quotes API available in multiple languages. These are general motivational or inspirational quotes that the community can manage through pull requests.
• The InspiroBot API, an old school AI that generates seemingly inspirational quotes, but with a humorous twist. It parodies traditional motivational quotes from the point of view of an AI. Although we are not affiliated with InspiroBot, we’ve always found this service fun and thought it’d be nice to have it in Bonjourr. It is important to note that it’s at least 10 years old and has nothing to do with the recent generative AI trend.
• The Kaamelott API, quotes from a french comedy TV show. Only available in French.
• Stoic quotes that reflect the Stoicism philosophy.
• Hitokoto, Japanese inspirational quotes.
• Custom, add your own quotes directly from Bonjourr’s UI.
• URL, add quotes from a remote CSV file.

Importing your own quotes

There are two ways you can import your own quotes: directly from Bonjourr, or from a remote URL. In both cases, here is the formatting your quotes need to adopt:

Author, Your quote.
Author, Your second quote\nThis time with a line break!

With the custom quotes option

Once the custom quotes option is selected, you can simply add quotes to it by respecting the formatting shown above.

This option is limited to 8kB of text, which is about 50 regularly sized quotes. This is because Bonjourr uses storage.sync to store data, and each object is limited to 8kB. If you need more quotes, we advise using the URL option instead.

With the URL option (CSV file)

Select the URL option to link Bonjourr to the direct URL of a CSV file that contains all your quotes.

The easiest way to do this is to use GitHub Gist, a service that allows you to very easily create and host a file:

1. Create an account on GitHub if you don’t already have one, and log in.
2. Head to the GitHub Gist page.
3. Give your file a description, like “My Bonjourr quotes”.
4. Give it a filename, like bonjourr_quotes.csv. It can be anything as long as it ends with .csv.
5. Start typing your quotes with the formatting shown above (you’ll be able to edit them later if you want).
6. Once done, you can hit the Create secret gist button. It will save the file and show you what it looks like as a table.
7. Click the Raw button, copy the URL of the page that opens and paste it in the URL input of Bonjourr. Voilà!