Smart quotes API

Converts straight quotes, apostrophes, double dashes and ellipses to typographic equivalents (curly quotes, em dash, …), or reverses smart punctuation back to ASCII. Answers 'how do I add typographic quotes?', 'how do I convert -- to an em dash?'.

Price$0.02per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/text/smart-quotes

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

textsmart-quotestypographycurly-quotesem-dashpunctuationformattingascii

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/text/smart-quotes

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "text": "\"hello\" it's a test -- really..."
}

Example response

{
  "result": "“hello” it’s a test — really…",
  "mode": "to-smart"
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "text"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "text": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "\"hello\" it's a test -- really..."
      ]
    },
    "reverse": {
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}