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fun-content

Use when a task needs light entertainment content from a live API - "build a quiz/trivia game", "random dog picture", "cat fact", "advice of the day", "random fun fact" - for a demo, bot, party feature, or filler content slot. Open Trivia DB is the quiz default (its session-token mechanics are documented here); catfact.ninja, random.dog, Advice Slip, and Useless Facts cover the rest, all keyless. Do NOT use for placeholder users/products/images in a prototype - use test-placeholder-data instead; do NOT use for dictionary or encyclopedia lookups - use language-reference instead; if the request is a vague "I need live data", route through public-data-api-picker.

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# Fun Content APIs

Pull trivia, animal images, and one-liner facts from verified keyless endpoints. The mistakes this prevents: shipping a quiz that repeats questions because Open Trivia DB's token mechanics were skipped, printing raw HTML entities in questions, and citing one of this category's chronically-dead quote APIs from training memory.

## Ranked APIs

1. **Open Trivia DB** (opentdb.com) - DEFAULT for quiz/trivia: 4,000+ questions, categories, difficulties. No key, but has session-token and encoding mechanics (below) that naive integrations get wrong.
2. **catfact.ninja** - random cat facts. **random.dog** - random dog images (the better-known Dog CEO API at dog.ceo is returning HTTP 520s, verified - see Do NOT).
3. **Advice Slip** (api.adviceslip.com) and **Useless Facts** (uselessfacts.jsph.pl) - one-liner advice and fun facts.

## Procedure

1. **Trivia beyond one throwaway call → get a session token first.** The token makes the API track served questions so users never see repeats. Rate limit: **1 request per IP per 5 seconds** - batch up to 50 questions per call instead of calling per-question.
2. **Decode the questions.** Default responses are HTML-encoded (`&quot;`, `&#039;`). Either decode entities client-side or request `&encode=url3986` and URL-decode - do one of them, or apostrophes render as garbage.