api.php: Get trivia questions

API: opentdb.com:open-trivia-database
Endpoint: /api.php
Response format: unknown
Auth: unknown
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 507ms

Description

Retrieve trivia questions with optional filtering by category, difficulty, type, and session token. Maximum 50 questions per call.

Parameters (6)

amount (integer, query, required)

Number of questions to retrieve (1-50)

Constraints: {'minimum': 1, 'maximum': 50}

category (integer, query, optional)

Category ID (see /api_category.php for list)

difficulty (string, query, optional)

Question difficulty level

Constraints: {'enum': ['easy', 'medium', 'hard']}

encode (string, query, optional)

Encoding type for special characters

Constraints: {'enum': ['urlLegacy', 'url3986', 'base64']}

token (string, query, optional)

Session token to prevent duplicate questions

type (string, query, optional)

Question type

Constraints: {'enum': ['multiple', 'boolean']}

Examples (1)

Get trivia questions probe-gate

curl 'https://opentdb.com/api.php'

import requests

resp = requests.get("https://opentdb.com/api.php")
data = resp.json()

import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("open-trivia-database")
result = api.fetch("api.php")

for item in result:
    print(item)

const resp = await fetch("https://opentdb.com/api.php");
const data = await resp.json();

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Time	Status	Latency
2026-04-16 01:42:00.371777	200	507ms
2026-04-15 00:06:06.648086	200	519ms
2026-04-14 01:24:20.244502	200	658ms
2026-04-12 13:34:04.762687	200	490ms
2026-04-10 02:41:18.731448	200	525ms
2026-04-09 01:41:56.216546	200	762ms
2026-04-03T10:50:32.607776	200	354ms