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🧠 Open Trivia Database Question Scraper

🚀 Pull trivia questions across 24 categories with correct + incorrect answers, difficulty, type, category counts. Stable IDs for dedupe.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-08 · 📊 26 fields per record · 21,000+ trivia questions · 24 categories · easy / medium / hard · multiple choice + true/false · stable hash IDs · category + global counts

The Open Trivia Database Question Scraper pulls trivia questions from the Open Trivia DB community dataset. Output includes a stable question ID (SHA-1 hash for dedupe across runs), category name + numeric ID + group + subject, difficulty, type, language, the question text + length + word count, correct answer, incorrect answers (plain + joined text), all answers shuffled with the correct answer's index, per-category total + easy + medium + hard counts, and global category counts (total / verified / pending / rejected).

The Actor uses session tokens to avoid duplicates within a run, plus a SHA-1 hash of the question for dedupe across runs. Filter by category, difficulty (easy / medium / hard), and type (multiple choice / true-false).

📋 What the Open Trivia Database Question Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🆔 Stable question IDs. SHA-1 hash for dedupe across runs.
• 🏷️ 24 categories. General Knowledge, Books, Film, Music, Science, History, Sports, etc.
• 📊 Difficulty filter. Easy / medium / hard.
• ✅ Type filter. Multiple choice or true / false.
• 📈 Category counts included. Per-category and global totals (verified / pending / rejected).

💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering and fresh data on every run.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

⚙️ Input

Example: 100 random trivia questions.

{
"maxItems":100
}

Example: hard science questions.

{
"maxItems":50,
"category":"17",
"difficulty":"hard"
}

📊 Output

Each record contains 26 fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

📦 Sample records

✨ Why choose this Actor

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Find the Open Trivia Database Question Scraper on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

💼 Business use cases

🔌 Automating Open Trivia Database Question Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Set optional filters (category, difficulty, type) and a max item count. The Actor pages OpenTDB with a session token to avoid duplicates and emits one record per question.

📊 How many fields per record?

26, including the question text, correct + incorrect answers, all answers shuffled, category + global counts, stable ID.

🆔 What's questionId?

SHA-1 hash of category + type + difficulty + question + correct answer. Stable across runs for dedupe.

🌐 Are non-English questions supported?

No. OpenTDB is English-only.

📊 What does correctAnswerIndex mean?

Index (0-based) of the correct answer inside the shuffled allAnswers array. Useful for quiz UIs.

🔢 Why are there only 24 categories?

OpenTDB defines 24 active categories. The category list is loaded once at the start of each run.

⏱️ Why is this slower than other Actors?

OpenTDB rate-limits to 1 request per 5 seconds. 100 items takes ~18 seconds.

🆓 Do I need an API key?

No. OpenTDB is free and open.

🔁 Can I schedule runs?

Yes. Schedule daily for a fresh question rotation.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan?

No. The free plan covers preview runs (10 records).

🔌 Integrate with any app

Open Trivia Database Question Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications
• Airbyte - Pipe data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits
• Google Drive - Export datasets to Sheets

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🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Open Trivia DB project, its maintainers, or any individual question contributor. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.