# Open Trivia DB Scraper (`lulzasaur/opentriviadb-scraper`) Actor

Scrape trivia questions from Open Trivia Database. Get questions with answers across 24 categories and 3 difficulty levels. Perfect for quiz apps, games, and educational content.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/opentriviadb-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [lulz bot](https://apify.com/lulzasaur) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Open Trivia DB Scraper

Scrape trivia questions from the Open Trivia Database (opentdb.com). Get questions with answers across 24 categories and 3 difficulty levels. Perfect for quiz apps, games, and educational content.

### Features

- **24 categories**: General Knowledge, Science, History, Geography, Sports, Art, Music, Film, and more
- **3 difficulty levels**: Easy, Medium, Hard (or any)
- **2 question types**: Multiple Choice and True/False
- **Deduplication**: Uses session tokens to ensure no duplicate questions
- **HTML decoded**: All questions and answers are properly decoded from HTML entities
- **Shuffled answers**: `allAnswers` array has correct + incorrect answers randomly shuffled

### Output Fields

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `category` | Question category (e.g. "Science & Nature") |
| `type` | `multiple` (4 choices) or `boolean` (true/false) |
| `difficulty` | `easy`, `medium`, or `hard` |
| `question` | The trivia question text |
| `correctAnswer` | The correct answer |
| `incorrectAnswers` | Array of wrong answers |
| `allAnswers` | Shuffled array of all answers (correct + incorrect) |
| `scrapedAt` | ISO timestamp |

### Input Options

- **Category**: Choose from 24 categories or "Any Category"
- **Difficulty**: Easy, Medium, Hard, or Any
- **Question Type**: Multiple Choice, True/False, or Any
- **Limit**: 1 to 1000 questions (default 50)

### Use Cases

- **Quiz apps**: Build trivia games with ready-made question banks
- **Education**: Create study materials and practice tests
- **Chatbots**: Add trivia features to Discord/Slack bots
- **Content generation**: Generate quiz content for social media
- **Game development**: Populate trivia mini-games with real questions

### Example Output

```json
{
  "category": "Science & Nature",
  "type": "multiple",
  "difficulty": "medium",
  "question": "What is the chemical symbol for gold?",
  "correctAnswer": "Au",
  "incorrectAnswers": ["Ag", "Fe", "Gd"],
  "allAnswers": ["Fe", "Au", "Gd", "Ag"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-26T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Rate Limits

The Open Trivia Database allows 1 request per 5 seconds. The scraper automatically handles rate limiting and pagination. Fetching 1000 questions takes approximately 2 minutes.

***

### Run on Apify

This scraper runs on the [Apify platform](https://apify.com/?fpr=lulzasaur) — a full-stack web scraping and automation cloud. Sign up for a free account to get started with 30-day trial of all features.

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# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

Trivia category to fetch questions from.

## `difficulty` (type: `string`):

Question difficulty level.

## `questionType` (type: `string`):

Type of questions to fetch.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of questions to fetch (1-1000).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional proxy to use.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "any",
  "difficulty": "any",
  "questionType": "any",
  "limit": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

## `csv` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/opentriviadb-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/opentriviadb-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call lulzasaur/opentriviadb-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lulzasaur/opentriviadb-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/kMmxO0Ehs1zGvnTPs/builds/8VOcAuL33XsI2d9w9/openapi.json