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Bored API

The Bored API is a free, open-source, no-authentication public API that serves suggestions for things to do when you are bored. The canonical reference implementation is an MEVN (MongoDB / Express / Vue / Node) project maintained by Drew Thoennes at github.com/drewthoennes/Bored-API (MIT licensed). The historically hosted instance at https://www.boredapi.com/ has been intermittently or fully unreachable since June 2024 (originally hosted on Heroku); a community fork maintained by The App Brewery at https://bored-api.appbrewery.com remains actively available for students and consumers. This profile documents the v1 surface (legacy activities-only), the v2 surface (activities + facts + riddles + websites + suggestions), and the App Brewery community mirror, so the API contract is preserved as a historical, self-hostable artifact.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Bored API the way a machine reads it — 47 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Bored API scores 44.2/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 32/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 44.2/100 · thin
Contract Quality 16.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Bored API

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bored API. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 5

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

Bored API Activities API

Random and filtered activity suggestions.

Bored API Facts API

Random or keyed factual snippets (v2 only).

Bored API Riddles API

Random or keyed riddles with difficulty filter (v2 only).

Bored API Suggestions API

Community-submitted content suggestions for review (v2 only).

Bored API Websites API

Random or keyed website recommendations (v2 only).

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

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

Bored API

OPEN COLLECTION

Features 5

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Free and open

No API key, no auth, no signup required.

Multi-dimensional filtering

Activities can be filtered by type, participants, price, and accessibility — including min/max ranges.

Versioned surface

V1 (legacy) and v2 (extended with facts, riddles, websites, suggestions) coexist.

Self-hostable

MIT-licensed MEVN stack — clone, npm install, run against a local MongoDB.

Community-extensible

V2 suggestions endpoint accepts new activity, fact, riddle, and website submissions for moderator review.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

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

Bored Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Bored API API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Bored API API Rules

12 rules · 8 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

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

BoredActivityV1

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BoredActivityV2

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BoredFact

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BoredRiddle

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BoredSuggestion

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BoredWebsite

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 5

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Bored Activity V1 Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Bored Activity V2 Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Bored Fact Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Bored Riddle Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Bored Website Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 10

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scroll within the panel for all 10 ·

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bored Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

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

Bored Agentic Access

14 operations · 1 acting

14 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 4

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Boredom busters

I'm Bored Alexa skill, Discord bots, browser extensions for spontaneous activity ideas.

Teaching API

Sample API used in many web-development bootcamps (notably The App Brewery course) for fetch/axios/HTTP exercises.

Mobile apps

iOS and Android apps that surface random activities to users.

Decision support

Helper tools that recommend low-cost, low-participant activities when users can't decide what to do.

Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Amazon Alexa

I'm Bored Alexa skill consuming the Bored API for spoken suggestions.

Python (PyPI)

bored and bored-api Python wrappers on PyPI.

Kotlin

CMDR_Tvis Kotlin wrapper on GitLab.

iOS App Store

Bored — Find What to Do iOS app.

The App Brewery

Used as the canonical fetch/axios teaching API in The App Brewery's web-development course.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Bored API — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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