# API Suggestion: Get question's ID and validate answer

**URL:** <https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/api-suggestion-get-questions-id-and-validate-answer/28263>\
**Category:** Trivia Suggestions\
**Created:** [July 16, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/api-suggestion-get-questions-id-and-validate-answer/28263 "2018-07-16T10:54:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tino](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/9dc877/32.png) [@Tino](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Tino)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/api-suggestion-get-questions-id-and-validate-answer/28263/1 "2018-07-16T10:54:40Z")

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Hi all,

I am very new to the Open Trivia Database, and I love the fact that it has an API.

I am looking for the following (additional) functionality; When GETting a questions, please also allow to return the ID of the question. Then, through another call, let’s say ValidateAnswer, I can POST the question ID + the answer and have the answer validated by the Open Trivia Database API. That would be really nice. It would allow for an easy implementation of a CAPTCHA kind of service using the Open Trivia Database!

Is something worthwhile looking at?

Tino

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**Author:** ![JohannesDau](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/johannesdau/32/7071_2.png) [@JohannesDau](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/JohannesDau)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/api-suggestion-get-questions-id-and-validate-answer/28263/2 "2018-07-16T14:41:07Z")

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I don’t think a (relatively) small public database of trivia Q&A is a good source for CAPTCHA challenges.