# Bored API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bored/  
**Website:** https://www.boredapi.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

The Bored API is a free, open-source, no-authentication public API that serves suggestions for things to do when you are bored. The canonical reference implementation is an MEVN (MongoDB / Express / Vue / Node) project maintained by Drew Thoennes at github.com/drewthoennes/Bored-API (MIT licensed). The historically hosted instance at https://www.boredapi.com/ has been intermittently or fully unreachable since June 2024 (originally hosted on Heroku); a community fork maintained by The App Brewery at https://bored-api.appbrewery.com remains actively available for students and consumers. This profile documents the v1 surface (legacy activities-only), the v2 surface (activities + facts + riddles + websites + suggestions), and the App Brewery community mirror, so the API contract is preserved as a historical, self-hostable artifact.

## Kin Score — 32.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 61.3 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 17.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (5)

- **Bored API Activities API** — Random and filtered activity suggestions.
- **Bored API Facts API** — Random or keyed factual snippets (v2 only).
- **Bored API Riddles API** — Random or keyed riddles with difficulty filter (v2 only).
- **Bored API Suggestions API** — Community-submitted content suggestions for review (v2 only).
- **Bored API Websites API** — Random or keyed website recommendations (v2 only).

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bored Agentic Access** — 14 operations · 1 acting

## Security (1)

- **Bored Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Use cases (4)

- **Boredom busters** — I'm Bored Alexa skill, Discord bots, browser extensions for spontaneous activity ideas.
- **Teaching API** — Sample API used in many web-development bootcamps (notably The App Brewery course) for fetch/axios/HTTP exercises.
- **Mobile apps** — iOS and Android apps that surface random activities to users.
- **Decision support** — Helper tools that recommend low-cost, low-participant activities when users can't decide what to do.

## Tags

Activities, Boredom, Community, Development, Discovery, Education, Facts, Free, MEVN, No Auth, Open-Source, Public APIs, Recreation, Riddles, Suggestions, Websites

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bored/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.