Knowledge & Fun

Trivia API

Pull random trivia questions with answers, filtered by topic and difficulty.

Request Headers

Name	Required	Description
`X-RapidAPI-Key`	required	Your RapidAPI key. Get one free.
`X-RapidAPI-Host`	required	`trivia.p.rapidapi.com`

Endpoints

GET /v1/trivia

Get random trivia questions, optionally filtered by category and difficulty

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Default	Constraints
`category`	string	optional	—	—
`difficulty`	string	optional	—	matches easy\|medium\|hard
`limit`	integer	optional	1	1-10

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://trivia.p.rapidapi.com/v1/trivia?category=example&difficulty=example' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: trivia.p.rapidapi.com'

const url = "https://trivia.p.rapidapi.com/v1/trivia?category=example&difficulty=example";
const options = {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "trivia.p.rapidapi.com"
  }
};

const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://trivia.p.rapidapi.com/v1/trivia"

querystring = {"category": "example", "difficulty": "example"}

headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "trivia.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())

GET /v1/trivia/categories

List all trivia categories available in the dataset, sorted alphabetically.

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://trivia.p.rapidapi.com/v1/trivia/categories' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: trivia.p.rapidapi.com'

const url = "https://trivia.p.rapidapi.com/v1/trivia/categories";
const options = {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "trivia.p.rapidapi.com"
  }
};

const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://trivia.p.rapidapi.com/v1/trivia/categories"

headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "trivia.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

GET /v1/trivia/difficulties

List all difficulty levels available in the trivia dataset, sorted alphabetically.

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://trivia.p.rapidapi.com/v1/trivia/difficulties' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: trivia.p.rapidapi.com'

const url = "https://trivia.p.rapidapi.com/v1/trivia/difficulties";
const options = {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "trivia.p.rapidapi.com"
  }
};

const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://trivia.p.rapidapi.com/v1/trivia/difficulties"

headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "trivia.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

Interactive Example

trivia

$ GET /v1/trivia?difficulty=easy&limit=1
{"data":[{"question":"What is the largest planet in our solar system?","answer":"Jupiter","category":"Science","difficulty":"easy"}],"meta":{"total":1,"limit":1,"offset":0}}

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