chucknorris.io
Free JSON REST API for hand-curated Chuck Norris jokes (facts) maintained by @matchilling. Supports random retrieval, category filtering, full-text search, and direct lookup by joke identifier. Hosted at api.chucknorris.io with an open-source Spring Boot service (chuck-api), official Node.js and Java client SDKs, a Chrome extension, a Storybook addon, and Messenger / Alexa companion apps published under the chucknorris-io GitHub organization.
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Kin Score
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How we profile chucknorris.io
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for chucknorris.io. 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 3
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.
chucknorris.io Categories API
Joke category metadata.
chucknorris.io Jokes API
Chuck Norris jokes (facts) endpoints.
chucknorris.io Search API
Full-text search across the joke corpus.
Open Collections 5
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONChuck Norris Jokes Categories API
OPEN COLLECTIONChuck Norris Categories Jokes API
OPEN COLLECTIONChuck Norris Jokes Categories Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONChuck Norris Jokes API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Chucknorris Io Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Chucknorris Io Finops
FINOPSFeatures 6
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.
Random Joke
GET /jokes/random returns a single random Chuck Norris fact.
Random Joke By Category
GET /jokes/random?category={category} constrains random selection.
List Categories
GET /jokes/categories returns the 16 supported category identifiers.
Free-Text Search
GET /jokes/search?query={query} returns matching jokes with a total count.
Lookup By Id
GET /jokes/{id} retrieves a single joke by its identifier.
Plain-Text Variant
All endpoints honor Accept text/plain for shell-friendly output.
Semantic Vocabularies 2
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.
Chucknorris Io Context
JSON-LDcontext 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.
chucknorris.io API Rules
SPECTRALchucknorris.io 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.
CategoryList
JSON SCHEMAError
JSON SCHEMAJoke
JSON SCHEMASearchResult
JSON SCHEMAJokeSearchResult
JSON SCHEMAJoke
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 4
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.
Chucknorris Io Category List Structure
JSON STRUCTUREChucknorris Io Error Structure
JSON STRUCTUREChucknorris Io Joke Structure
JSON STRUCTUREChucknorris Io Search Result 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.
Chucknorris Io Error Example
EXAMPLEChucknorris Io Joke Example
EXAMPLERandom Joke
EXAMPLESearch Result
EXAMPLEScroll 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.
Demo Data Source
Tutorial-friendly free public API for learning HTTP clients, SDKs, and AI tool patterns.
Chat & Bot Surfaces
Slack, Messenger, and Alexa surfaces inject random facts on demand.
Developer Toy
Storybook addon and Chrome extension use the API to entertain developers.
Load & Reliability Testing
Lightweight, no-auth endpoints are useful targets for HTTP client smoke tests.
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.
Slack
Slack slash command integration referenced in the public docs.
Facebook Messenger
Companion Messenger bot (chucknorris-io/app-facebook-messenger).
Alexa
Companion Alexa skill (chucknorris-io/app-alexa-skill).
Google Chrome
Official Chrome extension surfacing facts in the browser.
Storybook
Storybook addon injecting Chuck Norris facts into dev workflows.
Resources
Every other property we hold for chucknorris.io — 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.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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