Trivia API Documentation

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{
    "id": 29299,
    "answer": "Raiders of the Lost Ark",
    "question": "This 1981 blockbuster introduced the hero Indiana Jones",
    "value": 100,
    "airdate": "2000-10-02T12:00:00.000Z",
    "air_date": "2000-10-02",
    "category_id": 309,
    "category": {
        "id": 309,
        "name": "the movies"
    }
}

API Usage

/question

URL: /api/question
Default: the default return is a random question
Options:
- id(int): the question with the specified id
- value(int): a random question of the specified value
- category(string): a random question from the specified category
- airdate(string): a random question from the specified air date
- year(int): a random question from the specified year
- month(int): a random question from the specified month
- day(int): a random question from the specified day

Example: https://trivia.connorsmyth.com/api/question/?id=6

Example: https://trivia.connorsmyth.com/api/question/?value=200&category=music

/questions

URL: /api/questions
Default: the default return is a group of 100 questions starting with an id of 1 and ending with an id of 100
Options:
- value(int): all questions of the specified value
- category(string): all questions from the specified category
- airdate(string): all questions from the specified air date
- year(int): all questions from the specified year
- month(int): all questions from the specified month
- day(int): all questions from the specified day
- offset(int): all questions starting from a specified offset number
- quantity(int): limit the number of questions that can be returned

Example: https://trivia.connorsmyth.com/api/questions/?value=200&category=sports

/question/today

URL: /api/question/today
Default: the default return is a random question that aired on today's date from any year
Options:
- value(int): a random question from today's date of the specified value
- category(string): a random question from today's date from the specified category

/questions/today

URL: /api/questions/today
Default: the default all questions that aired on today's date from any year
Options:
- value(int): all questions from today's date of the specified value
- category(string): all questions from today's date from the specified category