Bored API

Free REST API that suggests random activities to do when bored, filterable by type, number of participants, price range, and accessibility. A teaching tool by The App Brewery with no authentication required.

Bored API publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Activities API. Tagged areas include Activities, Boredom, Random, Entertainment, and Lifestyle.

The Bored API catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Bored API’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

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28.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreeOpen⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

ActivitiesBoredomRandom Entertainment Lifestyle Free

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 28.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 2.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 15.8 — up to +16.8 composite points
Contract Quality scores 53.8 — up to +11.6 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/bored-api/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/bored-api to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Bored API Activities API

Operations for discovering and retrieving activities

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Bored Activities API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bored API pricing

Not yet checked against Bored API's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-13; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free	Free

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Bored Api Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bored Api Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Bored API

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Bored Api Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Bored Api Context

1 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Bored API — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Activity

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Random Activity Response

10 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bored Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Bored Api Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bored-api
name: Bored API
description: Free REST API that suggests random activities to do when bored, filterable by type, number of participants, price
  range, and accessibility. A teaching tool by The App Brewery with no authentication required.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bored-api.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bored-api/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Activities
- Boredom
- Random
- Entertainment
- Lifestyle
- Free
apis:
- aid: bored-api:bored-api-activities-api
  name: Bored API Activities API
  description: Operations for discovering and retrieving activities
  humanURL: https://bored-api.appbrewery.com/
  tags:
  - Activities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bored-api-activities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bored-api.appbrewery.com/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/bored-api-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/bored-api-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/bored-api-finops.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bored-api-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bored-api-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://bored-api.appbrewery.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://bored-api.appbrewery.com/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/drewthoennes/Bored-API
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-app-brewery/
- type: Blog
  url: https://appbrewery.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://bored-api.appbrewery.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://bored-api.appbrewery.com/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/appbrewery
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bored-api-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bored-api-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bored-api-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Bored API — frequently asked questions

Does Bored API have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Bored API, including Bored API Activities API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Bored API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Bored API, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Bored API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Bored API, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Bored API ready for AI agents?

Bored API has a Kin Score of 28.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 30.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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