n8n-nodes-opentrivia

This is an n8n community node. It lets you fetch trivia questions, categories, and session tokens from the Open Trivia Database (opentdb.com) in your n8n workflows.

Open Trivia DB is a free, community-driven trivia question database. No API key or credentials are required to use it.

n8n is a fair-code licensed workflow automation platform.

Installation
Resources & Operations
Credentials
Notes
Compatibility
Resources

Installation

Follow the installation guide for n8n community nodes.

For a self-hosted instance, you can also drop this package into your N8N_CUSTOM_EXTENSIONS folder and restart n8n:

npm install
npm run build

Resources & Operations

Question

• Get Many — Fetch one or more trivia questions.
  • Amount — number of questions to fetch (1–50).
  • Category — trivia category (loaded dynamically from the API), or "Any Category".
  • Difficulty — Any / Easy / Medium / Hard.
  • Type — Any / Multiple Choice / True-False.
  • Session Token — optional token to avoid getting repeated questions.

Category

• Get Many — List all available trivia categories.
• Get Question Count — Get the number of questions available for a given category (broken down by difficulty).
• Get Global Question Count — Get the total number of questions available across all categories.

Session Token

• Request — Request a new session token so the API can track which questions it has already served you.
• Reset — Reset an existing session token so its questions can be served again.

Credentials

None. The Open Trivia Database API is free and does not require authentication.

Notes

• Questions are always requested from the API with base64 encoding and decoded automatically by the node, so you get clean text in your output — no HTML entities (", ', etc.) to clean up.
• Open Trivia DB rate-limits requests to one per 5 seconds per IP address (response code 5). If you hit this, add a delay between requests.
• The maximum number of questions per request is 50.

Compatibility

• Requires n8n with n8nNodesApiVersion 1.
• Requires Node.js >= 22.

Resources

• Open Trivia Database API documentation
• n8n community nodes documentation

License

MIT