Open Trivia DB Tokens API

Manage session tokens to track served questions.

OpenAPI Specification

open-trivia-db-tokens-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Open Trivia DB Categories Tokens API
  description: Free JSON API providing trivia questions across multiple categories, difficulties, and types. No API key is required. Supports session tokens to avoid duplicate questions across requests, multiple response encodings, and rate limiting of one request per IP every 5 seconds.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Open Trivia DB
    url: https://opentdb.com
  license:
    name: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
servers:
- url: https://opentdb.com
  description: Open Trivia DB Production
tags:
- name: Tokens
  description: Manage session tokens to track served questions.
paths:
  /api_token.php:
    get:
      tags:
      - Tokens
      summary: Manage session tokens
      description: Request a new session token, reset an existing one, or check token status. Tokens prevent duplicate questions across requests for 6 hours of inactivity.
      operationId: manageToken
      parameters:
      - name: command
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Token operation.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - request
          - reset
      - name: token
        in: query
        description: Existing token (required when command is reset).
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Token response.
externalDocs:
  description: Open Trivia DB API Documentation
  url: https://opentdb.com/api_config.php