Implementing a random quote API

In this section, we are going to create a RESTful API that generates a random quote. This will include the Falcon-based API implementation with Mashape API integration, like we did in Chapter 9, Asynchronous Task Execution on AWS Lambda. This time, we are not going to integrate a database as we don't want to persist any information. This will be a simple HTTP GET request to our API and then we will return a JSON response with a randomly generated quote using the Mashape API. Let's look at the prerequisites in the next section.

Prerequisites

I hope you have met the previously mentioned technical requirements and set up the development environment using the pipenv tool. Now, you need to sign up at the Mashape API marketplace (https://market.mashape.com/), where we will be using the Random Famous Quote API (https://market.mashape.com/andruxnet/random-famous-quotes). Once you acquire the credentials to use this API, then we need to configure it in our application...