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.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
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.
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 COLLECTIONBored API (App Brewery Fork)
OPEN COLLECTIONFeatures 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
JSON-LDSpectral 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
SPECTRALBored API API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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
JSON SCHEMABoredActivityV2
JSON SCHEMABoredFact
JSON SCHEMABoredRiddle
JSON SCHEMABoredSuggestion
JSON SCHEMABoredWebsite
JSON SCHEMAJSON 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
JSON STRUCTUREBored Activity V2 Structure
JSON STRUCTUREBored Fact Structure
JSON STRUCTUREBored Riddle Structure
JSON STRUCTUREBored Website Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
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.
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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