Dad jokes API

Status

Open to develop

Submitted

The Dad Jokes API Actor is a web scraping and data aggregation tool designed to collect, curate, and serve dad jokes from various online sources through a structured API interface. This Actor systematically crawls popular joke websites, social media platforms, and comedy databases to gather clean, family-friendly dad jokes, organizing them into a searchable and accessible format.

Key features

  • Automated joke collection: Gathers jokes from multiple sources with duplicate detection and filtering.
  • Categorization by topics: Organizes jokes into categories like animals, food, or wordplay for targeted retrieval.
  • Quality scoring system: Ranks jokes based on engagement metrics and user ratings.
  • Flexible API endpoints: Supports random joke delivery, category-specific requests, and batch joke retrieval with customizable parameters.

Target audience

This Actor is perfect for app developers building entertainment or social applications, content creators seeking humorous material for websites or social media, chatbot developers wanting to add personality to their AI assistants, and businesses looking to incorporate light humor into their customer engagement strategies.

Benefits

  • Saves significant time and effort in content curation.
  • Ensures fresh and regularly updated joke content.
  • Provides reliable API infrastructure with consistent uptime.
  • Offers cost-effective access to thousands of jokes without manual collection.
  • Enables easy integration into existing applications through standard REST API protocols.

This is just an idea. You’re free to adapt it, expand on it, or take it in a completely different direction. Treat it as inspiration, not as rules, endorsement, or guidance.

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