trivia.py 1.0.6

A python wrapper for Open Trivia DB

trivia.py

An easy to use python api wrapper for Open Trivia DB

Installing

Python 3.6 or higher is required

pip install trivia.py

Usage

question(parameters)

Parameters:

• amount (int): The amount of questions you wish to request, defaults to 10

• category (int): The category you wish to request from (refer to table below for which number correlates to which category), defaults to None returning all categories.

Int	Category
0	All categories
1	General Knowledge
2	Entertainment: Books
3	Entertainment: Film
4	Entertainment: Music
5	Entertainment: Musicals & Theatres
6	Entertainment: Television
7	Entertainment: Video Games
8	Entertainment: Board Games
9	Science & Nature
10	Science: Computers
11	Science: Mathematics
12	Mythology
13	Sports
14	Geography
15	History
16	Politics
17	Art
18	Celebrities
19	Animals
20	Vehicles
21	Entertainment: Comics
22	Science: Gadgets
23	Entertainment: Japanese Anime & Manga
24	Entertainment: Cartoon & Animations

• difficulty (str): The difficulty of the questions, can be easy, medium, or hard. Defaults to None returning all difficulties.

• quizType (str): The type of questions, can be multiple (multiple choice questions), or boolean (true/false questions). Defaults to None returning all questions types.

Return:

Return a list of dicts which contains the keys below

• category (str): The category the question comes from.

• type (str): The type of question (multiple, or boolean).

• difficulty (str): The difficulty of the question.

• question (str): The text of the question.

• correct_answer (str): The correct answer.

• incorrect_answer (list): List of strings of all the incorrect answers.

Examples

Basic code example

from trivia import trivia

questions = trivia.question(amount=1, category=2, difficulty='easy', quizType='boolean')

An example of the return

[{
    'category': 'Entertainment: Books', 
    'type': 'boolean', 
    'difficulty': 'easy', 
    'question': 'The Harry Potter series of books, combined, are over 1,000,000 words in length.', 
    'correct_answer': 'True', 
    'incorrect_answers': ['False']
}]