Trivia API is RESTful API basic example supported by Udacity and Egypt FWD Trivia API is mainly full stack webpage that manage the trivia app and play the game. user can play quizzes either generally or filered by a category (Science,Arts,Sports,History,Geography and Entertainment) each question has a difficulty level.
Trivia API performs basic CRUD operations on Postgresql database,handles common errors such as 404 and 422. Trivia API also uses CORS and configures Access-Control-Allow-Methods to use meothods:GET,POST and DELETE.
/categoriesGet{
"categories": {
"1": "Science",
"2": "Art",
"3": "Geography",
"4": "History",
"5": "Entertainment",
"6": "Sports"
}
}Get questions including pagination (every 10 questions) and returns a list of questions, number of total questions, current category, categories.
/questionsGet{
"categories": {
"1": "Science",
"2": "Art",
"3": "Geography",
"4": "History",
"5": "Entertainment",
"6": "Sports"
},
"current_category": [
4,
6,
3,
1,
4,
1,
4,
1,
5,
3
],
"page": 1,
"questions": [
{
"answer": "Scarab",
"category": 4,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 23,
"question": "Which dung beetle was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians?"
},
{
"answer": "Uruguay",
"category": 6,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 11,
"question": "Which country won the first ever soccer World Cup in 1930?"
},
{
"answer": "answer new q 20",
"category": 3,
"difficulty": 3,
"id": 50,
"question": "new question 20"
},
{
"answer": "The Liver",
"category": 1,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 20,
"question": "What is the heaviest organ in the human body?"
},
{
"answer": "answer new q 12",
"category": 4,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 44,
"question": "new question 12"
},
{
"answer": "new answer 9",
"category": 1,
"difficulty": 3,
"id": 45,
"question": "new q 9"
},
{
"answer": "George Washington Carver",
"category": 4,
"difficulty": 2,
"id": 12,
"question": "Who invented Peanut Butter?"
},
{
"answer": "Blood",
"category": 1,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 22,
"question": "Hematology is a branch of medicine involving the study of what?"
},
{
"answer": "Tom Cruise",
"category": 5,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 4,
"question": "What actor did author Anne Rice first denounce, then praise in the role of her beloved Lestat?"
},
{
"answer": "Agra",
"category": 3,
"difficulty": 2,
"id": 15,
"question": "The Taj Mahal is located in which Indian city?"
}
],
"total_questions": 22
}/categories/<id>/questionsGet{
"categories": {
"1": "Science",
"2": "Art",
"3": "Geography",
"4": "History",
"5": "Entertainment",
"6": "Sports"
},
"current_category": [
4,
4,
4,
4
],
"page": 1,
"questions": [
{
"answer": "George Washington Carver",
"category": 4,
"difficulty": 2,
"id": 12,
"question": "Who invented Peanut Butter?"
},
{
"answer": "Scarab",
"category": 4,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 23,
"question": "Which dung beetle was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians?"
},
{
"answer": "new answer 9",
"category": 4,
"difficulty": 3,
"id": 42,
"question": "new q 9"
},
{
"answer": "answer new q 12",
"category": 4,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 44,
"question": "new question 12"
}
],
"total_questions": 4
}/questions/<id>Delete{
"message": "Deleted",
"success": true
}/questionsPostto use this endpoint your request should include json data as below
{
"answer": "Scarab",
"category": 4,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 23,
"question": "Which dung beetle was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians?"
}{
"message": "Inserted",
"success": true
}Get questions based on a search term (case-insensative).returns any questions for whom the search term is a substring of the question.
/questions/searchPostto use this endpoint your request should include json data as below
{
"searchTerm":"which"
}{
"categories": {
"1": "Science",
"2": "Art",
"3": "Geography",
"4": "History",
"5": "Entertainment",
"6": "Sports"
},
"current_category": [
6,
3,
3,
2,
4
],
"questions": [
{
"answer": "Uruguay",
"category": 6,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 11,
"question": "Which country won the first ever soccer World Cup in 1930?"
},
{
"answer": "The Palace of Versailles",
"category": 3,
"difficulty": 3,
"id": 14,
"question": "In which royal palace would you find the Hall of Mirrors?"
},
{
"answer": "Agra",
"category": 3,
"difficulty": 2,
"id": 15,
"question": "The Taj Mahal is located in which Indian city?"
},
{
"answer": "Escher",
"category": 2,
"difficulty": 1,
"id": 16,
"question": "Which Dutch graphic artist–initials M C was a creator of optical illusions?"
},
{
"answer": "Scarab",
"category": 4,
"difficulty": 4,
"id": 23,
"question": "Which dung beetle was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians?"
}
],
"searchTerm": "which"
}Get questions to play the quiz.returns a random questions within the given category,if provided, and that is not one of the previous questions.data must contains category (for all catgeories use category 0 ) and previous question ids.
/quizzesPostto use this endpoint your request should include json data as below
{
"previous_questions":[7],
"quiz_category":{"id":0}
}{
"question": {
"answer": "Mona Lisa",
"category": 1,
"difficulty": 3,
"id": 17,
"question": "La Giaconda is better known as what?"
}
}for abnormal operations you will receive a descriptive error messages
{
"success": False,
"error": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable"
} {
"success": False,
"error": 404,
"message": "Not found"
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