Is there a URL that gets you to a random Stack Exchange network site?

Question

Sometimes I feel like I want to use some sort of URL which redirects to a random site on the Stack Exchange network for the purpose of discovering new, interesting and useful Stack Exchange network sites.

Answer 1

Taking Sklivvz's advice I built a jsfiddle that will redirect you automagically to a random site.

Since the API call is "heavy" and limited, please don't run the below code too many times.

Let's cut to the slack!

The Random Stack Exchange™ Site Jumper Turbo is here:

var jumperDiv = $('#Jumper');
jumperDiv.html('Loading, please wait...');
$.getJSON("https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/sites?page=1&pagesize=999&?jsonp=wrapperFunc", function(data) {
    $('#RemainingQuota').html('Quota remaining: ' + data.quota_remaining + '<hr />');
    var allSites = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < data.items.length; i++) {
        //don't take meta sites
        if (data.items[i]["site_state"] != "linked_meta")
            allSites.push(data.items[i]["site_url"]);
      }
    Jump(allSites);
});
    
function Jump(allSites) {
    var randSiteUrl = allSites[parseInt(Math.random() * allSites.length)];
    jumperDiv.html('<a href="' + randSiteUrl + '">Jump to</a> ' + randSiteUrl + '!');
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="RemainingQuota"></div>
<div id="Jumper"></div>

Answer 2

You can get the list of sites here as JSON:

http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/sites#filter=default&run=true

(call without help page: http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/sites)

From that, it should be a Javascript one liner...

$.get("http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/sites?pagesize=1000", function(data) {
  console.log(data.items[Math.floor(Math.random()*data.items.length)]["site_url"]);
});

Answer 3

Well there is no such URL as of now, but the closest you can get to it is the All Sites url. You can randomly select a StackExchange site.

^{* To make it really very random, you can click on a random space in that page by closing your eyes ;)}