Breaking Bad

Community-built REST API exposing characters, quotes, episodes, and on-screen deaths from the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul television universe. The original hosted service at breakingbadapi.com is no longer reachable as of 2026-05-29 (DNS does not resolve). The canonical source code remains at github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API under BSD-3-Clause and is the basis for the historical OpenAPI and capability artifacts in this repo.

Breaking Bad is listed with 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Characters API, Deaths API, Episodes API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Video, Television, Public APIs, Open Source, and Breaking Bad.

The Breaking Bad catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

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18.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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4 APIs

Video Television Public APIs Open SourceBreaking BadBetter Call SaulPop Culture Deprecated

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 18.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 5.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 2.8 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware

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 0 / 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

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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
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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)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Contract Quality scores 27.0 — up to +18.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points

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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

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APIs 4

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

Breaking Bad Characters API

Characters from the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul universe.

Breaking Bad Deaths API

On-screen deaths catalogued across the series.

Breaking Bad Episodes API

Episodes from the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul series.

Breaking Bad Quotes API

Memorable quotes attributed to characters.

Open Collections 5

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

Breaking Bad Characters API

OPEN COLLECTION

Breaking Bad Characters Deaths API

OPEN COLLECTION

Breaking Bad Characters Episodes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Breaking Bad Characters Quotes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Breaking Bad API

OPEN COLLECTION

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Breaking Bad Context

4 classes · 27 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Breaking Bad — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Breaking Bad API Rules

32 rules · 10 errors 13 warnings 9 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

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

Character

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Death

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Episode

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Quote

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 4

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Breaking Bad Character Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Breaking Bad Death Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Breaking Bad Episode Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Breaking Bad Quote Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Breaking Bad Getrandomdeath Example

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Agentic Access 1

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

Breaking Bad Agentic Access

11 operations

11 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SourceCode

SourceCode

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

10,000 Requests Per Day

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Free / Anonymous

Plans

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

PublicAPIsListing

PublicAPIsListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: breaking-bad
name: Breaking Bad
description: Community-built REST API exposing characters, quotes, episodes, and on-screen deaths from the Breaking Bad and
  Better Call Saul television universe. The original hosted service at breakingbadapi.com is no longer reachable as of 2026-05-29
  (DNS does not resolve). The canonical source code remains at github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API under BSD-3-Clause and
  is the basis for the historical OpenAPI and capability artifacts in this repo.
url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - timbiles/breaking-bad--api
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API/raw/master/public/favicon.ico
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-29'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: Video
x-type: opensource
x-status: deprecated
x-deprecation-note: Hosted service breakingbadapi.com is unreachable as of 2026-05-29 (DNS does not resolve). Source code
  lives at github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API (BSD-3-Clause, last commit 2022-12-10). Artifacts in this repo are preserved
  as a historical record of the API contract.
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: bulk-registered-from-public-apis
tags:
- Video
- Television
- Public APIs
- Open Source
- Breaking Bad
- Better Call Saul
- Pop Culture
- Deprecated
tags_raw:
- Video
- Television
- Public APIs
- Open Source
- Breaking Bad
- Better Call Saul
- Pop Culture
- Deprecated
- Open-Source
apis:
- aid: breaking-bad:breaking-bad-characters-api
  name: Breaking Bad Characters API
  description: Characters from the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul universe.
  humanURL: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
  baseURL: https://www.breakingbadapi.com/api
  tags:
  - Characters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/breaking-bad-characters-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API#readme
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-character-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-quote-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-episode-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-death-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-character-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-quote-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-episode-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-death-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-listcharacters-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-getrandomquote-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-listepisodes-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-getrandomdeath-example.json
- aid: breaking-bad:breaking-bad-deaths-api
  name: Breaking Bad Deaths API
  description: On-screen deaths catalogued across the series.
  humanURL: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
  baseURL: https://www.breakingbadapi.com/api
  tags:
  - Deaths
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/breaking-bad-deaths-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API#readme
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-character-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-quote-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-episode-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-death-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-character-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-quote-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-episode-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-death-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-listcharacters-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-getrandomquote-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-listepisodes-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-getrandomdeath-example.json
- aid: breaking-bad:breaking-bad-episodes-api
  name: Breaking Bad Episodes API
  description: Episodes from the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul series.
  humanURL: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
  baseURL: https://www.breakingbadapi.com/api
  tags:
  - Episodes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/breaking-bad-episodes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API#readme
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-character-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-quote-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-episode-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-death-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-character-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-quote-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-episode-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-death-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-listcharacters-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-getrandomquote-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-listepisodes-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-getrandomdeath-example.json
- aid: breaking-bad:breaking-bad-quotes-api
  name: Breaking Bad Quotes API
  description: Memorable quotes attributed to characters.
  humanURL: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
  baseURL: https://www.breakingbadapi.com/api
  tags:
  - Quotes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/breaking-bad-quotes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API#readme
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-character-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-quote-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-episode-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/breaking-bad-death-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-character-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-quote-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-episode-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/breaking-bad-death-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-listcharacters-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-getrandomquote-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-listepisodes-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/breaking-bad-getrandomdeath-example.json
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API/issues
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/breaking-bad-agentic-access.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API/blob/master/LICENSE.rst
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
- type: Plans
  title: Free / Anonymous
  url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API#readme
- type: RateLimits
  title: 10,000 Requests Per Day
  url: https://github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API#readme
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/breaking-bad-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/breaking-bad-vocabulary.yml
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/breaking-bad-rules.yml
features:
- name: Anonymous Access
  description: No API key, no authentication, no signup. Hit the endpoints directly.
- name: Random Sampling
  description: Dedicated /random endpoints for characters, quotes, and deaths.
- name: Series Filtering
  description: Episodes and characters can be filtered by Breaking Bad vs Better Call Saul via the series/category query parameter.
- name: On-Screen Death Catalog
  description: Unusual for a TV-show API — every on-screen death is catalogued with cause, responsible character, and last
    words.
useCases:
- name: Trivia and Quiz Apps
  description: Power Breaking Bad trivia games and quote-attribution quizzes.
- name: Front-End Tutorials
  description: Widely used as a tutorial dataset for React, Vue, Angular, and Flutter API consumption courses.
- name: ChatBot Personality Layer
  description: Inject random Breaking Bad quotes into chatbots and Discord/Slack bots for flavor.
- name: Sandbox for API Tooling
  description: Small enough to use as a fixture for testing OpenAPI tooling, mock servers, and code generators.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Breaking Bad API — frequently asked questions

Does Breaking Bad have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Breaking Bad, including Breaking Bad Characters API, Breaking Bad Deaths API and Breaking Bad Episodes API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Breaking Bad API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Breaking Bad, each linked for download from this page.

Is the Breaking Bad API ready for AI agents?

Breaking Bad has a Kin Score of 18.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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