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Open Trivia

Pull random trivia questions across categories and difficulties

😄 FunHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
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Fetch multiple-choice or true/false trivia questions filtered by category, difficulty, and type. Each result ships with the correct answer plus shuffled distractors, ready to drop straight into a quiz. Content is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 74 · healthy
Uptime history
73.5%90 days
80.0%30 days
729P50 · ms
1951P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 331 ms, slowest 1375 ms, most recent 530 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://opentdb.com/api.php?amount=1

{
  "response_code": 0,
  "results": [
    {
      "type": "multiple",
      "difficulty": "medium",
      "category": "Entertainment: Music",
      "question": "What is the opening track on Lorde's Pure Heroine?",
      "correct_answer": "Tennis Court",
      "incorrect_answers": [
        "Team",
        "Royals",
        "400 Lux"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://opentdb.com/api.php?amount=1"
const res = await fetch("https://opentdb.com/api.php?amount=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://opentdb.com/api.php?amount=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 3HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /api.php?amount=1729 mschecked 12h ago
GET/api.php?amount=1PROBED

Pull random trivia questions across categories and difficulties

GET/api.php?limit=5

Api Php — documented GET route.

GET/api.php?page=1

Api Php — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Open Trivia: common questions

Is Open Trivia free to use?

Yes — Open Trivia is a free fun API. Free tier: Free, no API key. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does Open Trivia need an API key?

No — Open Trivia needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (One request per IP every 5 seconds (documented)).

Can I call Open Trivia from the browser?

Yes — Open Trivia returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Open Trivia up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Open Trivia is healthy with 73.5% uptime over 90 days and a 729 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.