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Quote Card template

The quote-card template renders a content image as a PNG. POST a JSON payload to the endpoint below and you receive a CDN URL in the response.

Endpoint

POST https://html2img.com/api/v1/templates/quote-card
X-API-Key: <your-api-key>
Content-Type: application/json

Authentication uses the X-API-Key header. See the authentication docs for details on issuing and rotating keys.

Inputs

The full set of inputs the template accepts:

Name	Type	Required	Description	Example
`quote`	string	Yes	Text value for the quote.	`The thing that surprised me most was how quickly the team adopted it — by the second week, no one was opening the old tool.`
`attribution_name`	string	Yes	Text value for the attribution name.	`Marcus Hale`
`attribution_role`	string	No	Text value for the attribution role.	`Head of Engineering, Lattice Co`
`avatar_url`	url	No	URL of the avatar to include in the rendered image.	`https://i.pravatar.cc/160?img=51`
`brand_name`	string	No	Text value for the brand name.	`Northwind`
`logo_url`	url	No	URL of the logo to include in the rendered image.	`—`
`background_color`	string	No	Hex colour code for the background.	`#FAF7F0`
`accent_color`	string	No	Hex colour code for the accent.	`#7C3AED`

Defaults

Defaults applied automatically when not overridden in the request:

Option	Default value
`width`	`1200`
`height`	`1200`

Code examples

curl -X POST https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/quote-card \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"quote":"The thing that surprised me most was how quickly the team adopted it \u2014 by the second week, no one was opening the old tool.","attribution_name":"Marcus Hale","attribution_role":"Head of Engineering, Lattice Co","avatar_url":"https://i.pravatar.cc/160?img=51","brand_name":"Northwind","background_color":"#FAF7F0","accent_color":"#7C3AED"}'

<?php
$response = \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http::withHeaders([
    'X-API-Key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY',
])->post('https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/quote-card', ['quote' => 'The thing that surprised me most was how quickly the team adopted it — by the second week, no one was opening the old tool.', 'attribution_name' => 'Marcus Hale', 'attribution_role' => 'Head of Engineering, Lattice Co', 'avatar_url' => 'https://i.pravatar.cc/160?img=51', 'brand_name' => 'Northwind', 'background_color' => '#FAF7F0', 'accent_color' => '#7C3AED']);

$url = $response->json('url');

const response = await fetch('https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/quote-card', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "quote": "The thing that surprised me most was how quickly the team adopted it \u2014 by the second week, no one was opening the old tool.",
    "attribution_name": "Marcus Hale",
    "attribution_role": "Head of Engineering, Lattice Co",
    "avatar_url": "https://i.pravatar.cc/160?img=51",
    "brand_name": "Northwind",
    "background_color": "#FAF7F0",
    "accent_color": "#7C3AED"
}),
});

const { url } = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    'https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/quote-card',
    headers={'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
    json={'quote': 'The thing that surprised me most was how quickly the team adopted it — by the second week, no one was opening the old tool.', 'attribution_name': 'Marcus Hale', 'attribution_role': 'Head of Engineering, Lattice Co', 'avatar_url': 'https://i.pravatar.cc/160?img=51', 'brand_name': 'Northwind', 'background_color': '#FAF7F0', 'accent_color': '#7C3AED'},
)

url = response.json()['url']

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Response

A successful render returns:

{
  "success": true,
  "id": "abc123",
  "url": "https://i.html2img.com/abc123.png",
  "credits_remaining": 1234,
  "template": "quote-card"
}

The url field is a CDN URL for the rendered PNG. credits_remaining tracks your monthly quota. Shared response fields are documented in the API parameters reference.

Errors

The template endpoint returns the following error responses:

422 Validation failed

Returned when one or more inputs fail validation. The errors object lists field-specific messages.

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "validation_failed",
  "errors": {
    "title": ["The title field is required."]
  }
}

404 Template not found

Returned with {"code": "template_not_found"} if the slug is not registered. Check the template list for current slugs.

401 Unauthorised

Missing or invalid API key. See the authentication docs.

429 Too many requests

You have hit the rate limit or used your monthly credits. The pricing page covers higher-volume plans.

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Documentation