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I Built a Random Facts API on Apify — Here's How to Integrate It in Under 5 Minutes

DEV Community·Akash Kumar Naik·28 days ago
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What is the Random Facts API? The Random Facts API is an Apify Actor I built that gives developers instant access to a database of 1,000+ verified facts covering science, history, nature, and technology. It's designed for anyone who needs a reliable, structured, cost-efficient source of interesting facts — without scraping, hardcoding, or maintaining a database yourself. Why I Built This While building a chatbot side project, I wanted to enrich responses with interesting trivia. Every solution I found was either: A scraper that broke regularly A free API with aggressive rate limits and no bulk support A paid service charging for monthly subscriptions I didn't need So I built one on Apify's pay-per-event model. You only pay for the facts you actually retrieve. No idle costs.…

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