Issue with api in course 2

hi everyone, is it just me or in the course 2 the api does not work?
https://api.quotable.io/quotes

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my error code is:

Problem in node ‘HTTP Request‘

The connection cannot be established, this usually occurs due to an incorrect host (domain) value

here is the full dump:
{
“errorMessage”: “The connection cannot be established, this usually occurs due to an incorrect host (domain) value”,
“errorDetails”: {
“rawErrorMessage”: [
“getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND api.quotable.io”,
“getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND api.quotable.io
],
“httpCode”: “ENOTFOUND”
},
“n8nDetails”: {
“nodeName”: “HTTP Request”,
“nodeType”: “n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest”,
“nodeVersion”: 4.2,
“itemIndex”: 0,
“time”: “6/2/2025, 4:55:31 pm”,
“n8nVersion”: “1.76.3 (Self Hosted)”,
“binaryDataMode”: “default”,
“stackTrace”: [
“NodeApiError: The connection cannot be established, this usually occurs due to an incorrect host (domain) value”,
" at ExecuteContext.execute (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-nodes-base/dist/nodes/HttpRequest/V3/HttpRequestV3.node.js:525:33)“,
" at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)”,
" at WorkflowExecute.runNode (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/execution-engine/workflow-execute.js:632:19)“,
" at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/execution-engine/workflow-execute.js:881:51”,
" at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/execution-engine/workflow-execute.js:1215:20"
]
}
}

It looks like your topic is missing some important information. Could you provide the following if applicable.

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hi team, i’m on the latest version of n8n running on docker self-hosted, but this has got nothing to do with the setup, the url for the quotes is not loading at all, try a curl request, so it may need to change in the docs/course details.
so it is more an alert so you can investigate rather than a request for help. thanks

You’re right, it looks like this service is no longer available - I’ll let the Docs team know!

In the mean time, here’s a list of free APIs that you could use instead (it will require fiddling a bit with the fieldnames, of course).

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