Is there a way to make an API request as Https?

Im trying to figure out how to use this at all because I can't seem to figure it out

Hi,
Any plans for creating GRPC APIs for the same ?

New to using API's, I just wanted to see if it was still up. Sorry if this post was unnecessary.

Hi! Thanks for api, but I tried to use it and was getting CORS errors, finally figured out that instead of http://boredapi.com/api/activity/ i should use https://www.boredapi.com/api/activity/, that is with www part.
Maybe change example or server settings. I can elaborate if needed, with screenshots or code.

that way I could make sure the user doesnt see duplicates

What data type should I use for participants field? In the documentation its interval is [1, n]. What is the max possible n?

Is there a way to get more fields like kidFriendly and duration? or do these need to be added to the API still?

It looks like the Let's Encrypt certificate expired yesterday so HTTPS requests have issues:

Issued To:
Common Name (CN)	www.boredapi.com
Organization (O)	<Not Part Of Certificate>
Organizational Unit (OU)	<Not Part Of Certificate>

Issued By:
Common Name (CN)	R3
Organization (O)	Let's Encrypt
Organizational Unit (OU)	<Not Part Of Certificate>

Validity Period:
Issued On	Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 5:24:42 PM
Expires On	Monday, May 30, 2022 at 6:24:41 PM

Fingerprints:
SHA-256 Fingerprint	4F 09 0A 4B B3 83 EF CD 48 92 80 15 9E 21 25 B3
04 B5 54 A3 F1 06 52 BA 99 F1 0E B0 36 13 DD 40
SHA-1 Fingerprint	7C E2 08 BC 40 8D 14 9E E1 9D 00 C6 BD 18 47 30
BA 53 A0 67

We're seeing this issue in Python apps where I work.

To reproduce, this fails:

from urllib.request import urlopen

API_URL = "https://www.boredapi.com/api/activity"

with urlopen(API_URL) as response:
    result = response.read()
    print(result)

With this traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 1348, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers,
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/http/client.py", line 1282, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/http/client.py", line 1328, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/http/client.py", line 1277, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/http/client.py", line 1037, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/http/client.py", line 975, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/http/client.py", line 1454, in connect
    self.sock = self._context.wrap_socket(self.sock,
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/ssl.py", line 512, in wrap_socket
    return self.sslsocket_class._create(
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/ssl.py", line 1070, in _create
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/ssl.py", line 1341, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:997)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/daniel/junk/cert/main.py", line 5, in <module>
    with urlopen(API_URL) as response:
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 216, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 519, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 536, in _open
    result = self._call_chain(self.handle_open, protocol, protocol +
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 1391, in https_open
    return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPSConnection, req,
  File "/opt/Python-3.10.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 1351, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:997)>

It works fine if you change https to http in the URL though:

from urllib.request import urlopen

API_URL = "http://www.boredapi.com/api/activity"

with urlopen(API_URL) as response:
    result = response.read()
    print(result)

b'{"activity":"Write a short story","type":"recreational","participants":1,"price":0,"link":"","key":"6301585","accessibility":0.1}'

In About section of README, path is given for activities.json file. But there is no such file exist with name activities.json.

The tasks that your API provides are too huge, I don't know how to access your database otherwise I would have added some simple tasks in there myself. There should be tasks that seem doable to the user like "hey you go touch some grass" or "hey you go take your dog for a walk"

I am trying to have my users access the API using the input such as type, keywords or participants. Using your API how could I access certain activities using responses in a form?

Showing application error in herkou while trying to open the link

The readme contains an about section as follow:

This project is an MEVN (MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js, and Node.js) web app that has a goal of creating a simple way to find things to do. You do not need an API key to use this API, just query the endpoint to get data. All activities served by the API can be found here.

However, the link is dead. The here leads to a 404 page.
I'm not sure what the correct link is but it would be a simple fix. If someone provides me the link I can make a pr with the fix.

If you ever do want to update the API, then here are some new fields to consider to make the search more granular.

• duration: A measure of how long an activity takes. Could be text or integer, but it should be discrete: minutes, hours, days, weeks.

• accessibility: Redefined to focus on disability/health/age. At the very least, no challenges, minor challenges, major challenges.

• resources or availability etc.: The former "accessibility" field but now focused on the resources needed to accomplish the task: no specialized resources needed, some easy-to-find resources needed, some specialized resources needed, very specialized equipment required.

• kidfriendly: A simple boolean flag would do.

It would also be nice to allow for multiple "types" and to revisit the type taxonomy, maybe adding some hierarchy.

Hi, I noticed that the range parameter names for accessibility are wrong way around.
It conflicts with the statements in the documentation that zero is MOST accessible."

"accessibility
A factor describing how possible an event is to do with zero being the most accessible
[0.0, 1.0]"

You can check it when using only 1 of the range parameters.
"MAXaccessibility"is actually the MINIMUM value up until zero (0).
and "MINaccessibility"is actually the MAXIMUM value up from one (1).

You wouldn't notice this when using both MINaccessibility and MAXaccessibility in one request, because then they are interchangeable.

Please ccorrect this issue.
(And notify my, because I now changed my frond-end to work with the reversed order)

Thanks.

Can I filter with multiple parameters like:
activity?type=recreational&participants=3

Also, is the maximum number of participants 5?

Hi there,

I don't see any mention of rate-limiting in the docs. I was wondering what the story is if I want to use the API in an app. Let's say there are like, 100 - 200 requests total a day from my users, would that be ok for you? I can't imagine that you could just absorb an unlimited amount of requests per day.

Please let me know how much a day is too much, so I can adjust my code and plans accordingly. 😄

Hello,

Is the activities json still being updated regularly ? I've submitted few suggestions to increment it but seems to not be there.
I am keen to help and review all the received suggestions if necessary.
Just give me instructions how to proceed.

Cool API! Not really an issue i think but is it possible to set the participants on more than 1?

Somehting like: ?participants>1

Hello, when I try to test this Get in Postman, I get an error: endpoint not found result for just about every entry I try. Is this API still running?

Hello, I was wondering what the license for this database is? If I include it in my own project so it can work offline, is that allowed, what's the deal with attribution, etc.

Please let me know, thanks!

Hey, I was just wondering if there is an endpoint to all of the activities in the database? I am trying to access all of them at once to then manipulate the data myself for a school project. Let me know if that endpoint exists. Thanks!

I have a quick question, I am using the api on an application which I want to share on the App Store.
Now Apple requires us to provide information on wether this application show or makes use of third-party content and if yes we need to have the rights to do so.
Is there any website or document that I should mention so Apple knows I have the necessary rights?
Thanks

The documentation doesn't list these. I only saw the one example for recreational, so what are the others?

Could there be a definitive statement somewhere that says "No API key is required to access this
content." ?

API stopped working
Throwing a MongoError

Could you deploy the latest code so that all /v1 and /v2 routes are available?

For example, suggestions or riddles

https://github.com/drewthoennes/Bored-API/blob/master/src/backend/routes/v2/riddles.js

Thanks

Looking at this sample output when requesting https://www.boredapi.com/api/activity:

{
"activity":"Go to a concert with some friends",
"accessibility":0.4,
"type":"social",
"participants":4,
"price":0.6,
"key":"4558850"
}

Most of the numeric data is being returned as numbers, like price and participants. But key field on an Activity is a string. Is this intentional? Is it safe to assume that this string contains only numbers and so can be stored in a big unsigned integer?

Thank you.

It would be useful to have an endpoint that can be queried to obtain a list of valid types of activities

For example:

http://www.boredapi.com/api/types

Response:

{
"types": ["education", "recreational", "social", "diy", "charity", "cooking", "relaxation", "music", "busywork"]
}

It would be helpful if your continuums were bounded on both ends.

If accessibility 0 is "most accessible", is 1 "impossible"? This is really challenging to mentally parse. What is a 0.5 as opposed to a 0.6, for example? What precisely do you mean by "accessible"? Often this refers to people with disabilities. Is that the intent here?

If price 0 is "free", what is 1? "Prohibitively expensive"? Again, what's the difference between 0.5 and 0.6?

Price

• One approach is a subjective scale like 0 (free), 1 (trivial cost), 2 (minor cost), 3 (major cost)
• Another is to turn it into an actual estimate of dollar price. Again, 0 is free, but maybe "Go to a movie with friends" might become 30 or whatever it might reasonably cost for one person to go to the movie and get popcorn.
• Or, if you want to keep the 0-1 range, you could say that 1 = >$100 or >$1000 and then you scale the cost based on that.

Accessibility

• If this is meant to refer to disability or age, then a finite integer scale is probably simplest: 0 (easy for almost everyone), 1 (may pose minor challenges to someone with a disability or elderly), 2 (definitely pose some challenge to someone with a disability or elderly), 3 (very difficult for someone with a disability or elderly)

Still subjective, but if documented, would be more useful than the 0-1 scale.

Anyway, just some ideas.