free API sentinel

Daily liveness report for a curated guide of free, no-payment APIs — which are up, gated, or down today. Read-only probes; one small GET per API.

Generated: 2026-08-04 23:07 UTC · by bin/api-health

31 checked · 29 OK · 1 AUTH · 1 DOWN · 4 skipped (need key)

CategoryAPIStatusHTTPLatencyURL
DeveloperAPIs.guruOK200257 mshttps://api.apis.guru/v2/list.json
DeveloperGitHub RESTOK200156 mshttps://api.github.com/repos/torvalds/linux
DeveloperJSONPlaceholderOK20068 mshttps://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1
DeveloperOpen Trivia DatabaseOK200137 mshttps://opentdb.com/api.php?amount=1
DeveloperQR ServerOK200448 mshttps://api.qrserver.com/v1/create-qr-code/?data=hi&size=100x100
DeveloperWorldTimeAPIDOWN——https://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/America/New_York
FinanceCoinGeckoOK200110 mshttps://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/ping
FinanceFrankfurterOK20077 mshttps://api.frankfurter.dev/v1/latest
FinanceSEC EDGAROK20082 mshttps://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000320193.json
Financeopen.er-api.comOK20084 mshttps://open.er-api.com/v6/latest/USD
GeoOpenStreetMap NominatimOK2001092 mshttps://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=London&format=json&limit=1
GeoREST CountriesOK200197 mshttps://restcountries.com/v3.1/name/france?fields=name
GeoZippopotam.usOK20080 mshttps://api.zippopotam.us/us/90210
Geoip-api.comOK20075 mshttp://ip-api.com/json/8.8.8.8
Geoipapi.coOK200198 mshttps://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json/
HealthOpen Food FactsOK200579 mshttps://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/737628064502.json
HealthOpenFDAOK200529 mshttps://api.fda.gov/drug/label.json?limit=1
HealthPubMed E-utilitiesOK200100 mshttps://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/einfo.fcgi?retmode=json
KnowledgeDictionary APIOK200136 mshttps://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/hello
KnowledgeOpen LibraryOK2002702 mshttps://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780140328721.json
KnowledgeWikidata Query ServiceOK200341 mshttps://query.wikidata.org/sparql?query=ASK%7B%7D&format=json
KnowledgeWikipedia RESTOK200169 mshttps://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Earth
KnowledgearXivOK200169 mshttp://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:electron&max_results=1
NewsHacker NewsOK200243 mshttps://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json
NewsReddit JSONAUTH40366 mshttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top.json?limit=1
WeatherNASA APIsOK200489 mshttps://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY
WeatherOpen-ElevationOK200486 mshttps://api.open-elevation.com/api/v1/lookup?locations=10,10
WeatherOpen-MeteoOK200520 mshttps://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41&current_weather=true
WeatherSunriseSunset.ioOK200311 mshttps://api.sunrisesunset.io/json?lat=38.9&lng=-77.0
WeatherUS National Weather ServiceOK200209 mshttps://api.weather.gov/points/39.7456,-97.0892
WeatherUSGS Earthquake CatalogOK200451 mshttps://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?format=geojson&limit=1

Skipped (need a key / OAuth — not pinged)

CategoryAPIAuth
FinanceFREDkey
HealthData.govkey
NewsGuardian Open Platformkey
NewsTheNewsAPI / NewsDatakey