# Open Trivia Database Questions API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/open-trivia/open-trivia-questions-api/  
**Provider:** Open Trivia Database — https://apis.io/providers/open-trivia/  
**Base URL:** https://opentdb.com  
**Documentation:** https://opentdb.com/api_config.php

Open Trivia Database Questions API is one of 4 APIs that [Open Trivia Database](https://apis.io/providers/open-trivia/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 3 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Questions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, rate-limit docs, and 3 JSON Schemas.

Operations for retrieving trivia questions from the database.

## Machine-readable artifacts (15)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-trivia/refs/heads/main/openapi/open-trivia-questions-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://opentdb.com/api_config.php
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-trivia/refs/heads/main/json-schema/open-trivia-question-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-trivia/refs/heads/main/json-schema/open-trivia-category-schema.json
- **JSONStructure** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-trivia/refs/heads/main/json-structure/open-trivia-question-structure.json
- **JSONLD** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-trivia/refs/heads/main/json-ld/open-trivia-context.jsonld
- **SpectralRules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-trivia/refs/heads/main/rules/open-trivia-rules.yml
- **RateLimits** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-trivia/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/open-trivia-rate-limits.yml
- **Vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-trivia/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/open-trivia-vocabulary.yml
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-trivia/refs/heads/main/examples/open-trivia-question-response-example.json
- **Signup** — https://opentdb.com/api_config.php
- **ContributeQuestions** — https://opentdb.com/contribute.php
- **BrowseQuestions** — https://opentdb.com/browse.php
- **GameLink** — https://opentdb.com/game.php
- **Statistics** — https://opentdb.com/api_count_global.php

## Other Open Trivia Database APIs (3)

- [Open Trivia Database Categories API](https://apis.io/apis/open-trivia/open-trivia-categories-api/)
- [Open Trivia Database Statistics API](https://apis.io/apis/open-trivia/open-trivia-statistics-api/)
- [Open Trivia Database Tokens API](https://apis.io/apis/open-trivia/open-trivia-tokens-api/)

## Tags

Questions

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