Is Advice Slip API (api.adviceslip.com) down right now?

No — Advice Slip API (api.adviceslip.com) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 200 in 198 ms (checked 2026-09-11T21:00:23Z). We check api.adviceslip.com with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 100%.

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Is Advice Slip API (api.adviceslip.com) down?

UP right now — answered HTTP 200 in 198 ms.

Last checked 2026-09-11T21:00:23Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 100% · 7d: 98.7% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Context: GET-only advice generator; responses are cached for ~2 seconds (cache-control: max-age=2), so calling it in a quick loop returns the SAME slip every time — the classic “why is my random advice not random” tutorial confusion. No writes.

What we check: GET https://api.adviceslip.com/advice — a plain, keyless request from Cloudflare's network with an honest bot UA, exactly what a tutorial curl or an <img> tag experiences. OK = HTTP 2xx/3xx within 8s. No retries, no cookies, no API keys.

Need a tutorial API that answers?

If api.adviceslip.com is failing (or you're tired of finding out mid-demo), Mockbird gives you a seeded, persistent REST API for your tutorial or side project — pick a preset (ecommerce/blog/saas) or import any JSON/CSV as your own dataset; writes persist, CORS on, no signup — free, no signup:

curl https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/m/demo/products/1
# create your own in one click (no terminal): https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/app#new=ecommerce

Read the honest Advice Slip API (api.adviceslip.com) migration guide → (it also says when Advice Slip API (api.adviceslip.com) is the better tool) or create your own mock API in one click.

README badge

Does your project's test suite or tutorial depend on api.adviceslip.com? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

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[![api.adviceslip.com status](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/adviceslip/badge.svg)](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/adviceslip)

<!-- HTML -->
<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/adviceslip"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/adviceslip/badge.svg" alt="api.adviceslip.com status"></a>

Green = answering plain GETs, red = network-dead, amber = answering but with an error status. Every tracked service has one; there's also a summary badge for all 71.

Get pinged when it goes down

Subscribe any webhook URL — no account needed. One message when api.adviceslip.com goes down, one when it recovers (debounced: two consecutive hourly checks must agree, so a single blip never fires). Slack and Discord incoming-webhook URLs get a formatted message; anything else gets an HMAC-signed JSON POST.

Or from a terminal / CI script:

curl -X POST https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/status/watch \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"service": "adviceslip", "url": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T000/B000/XXXX"}'

Use "service": "*" to watch all 71 tracked services at once. The response includes an unsubscribe curl; 5 consecutive failed deliveries auto-unsubscribe. No webhook? Omit "url" to get a pollable subscription instead — GET the returned poll URL anytime for the transitions since your last poll. Full API details →

The same checker can watch your own URL: POST /api/status/monitor {"url": "https://api.example.com/health", "notify": "<webhook>"} — every 30 minutes, alert on down + recovery, free, no account. Monitor API →

Recent checks

Checked at (UTC)	Result	Time
2026-09-11T21:00:23Z	OK 200	198 ms
2026-09-11T20:00:45Z	OK 200	761 ms
2026-09-11T20:00:23Z	OK 200	236 ms
2026-09-11T19:00:23Z	OK 200	236 ms
2026-09-11T19:00:15Z	OK 200	587 ms
2026-09-11T18:00:27Z	OK 200	680 ms
2026-09-11T17:00:34Z	OK 200	636 ms
2026-09-11T16:00:25Z	OK 200	710 ms
2026-09-11T15:13:35Z	OK 200	2187 ms
2026-09-11T14:00:59Z	OK 200	688 ms
2026-09-11T12:00:46Z	OK 200	400 ms
2026-09-11T11:00:46Z	OK 200	452 ms
2026-09-11T10:00:46Z	OK 200	474 ms
2026-09-11T09:00:46Z	OK 200	424 ms
2026-09-11T08:00:46Z	OK 200	342 ms
2026-09-11T07:00:46Z	OK 200	452 ms
2026-09-11T06:01:09Z	OK 200	81 ms
2026-09-11T05:01:08Z	OK 200	64 ms
2026-09-11T04:01:11Z	OK 200	36 ms
2026-09-11T03:01:09Z	OK 200	66 ms
2026-09-11T02:01:05Z	OK 200	38 ms
2026-09-11T01:01:07Z	OK 200	52 ms
2026-09-11T00:01:09Z	OK 200	81 ms
2026-09-10T23:01:08Z	OK 200	49 ms
2026-09-10T22:01:07Z	OK 200	66 ms
2026-09-10T21:00:27Z	OK 200	1329 ms
2026-09-10T20:00:29Z	OK 200	528 ms
2026-09-10T19:00:34Z	FAIL timeout after 8000ms	8000 ms

Bias disclosure: this page is run by Mockbird, a free hosted mock-API service. The status data is real and logged verbatim (pull it yourself), and the linked guides say when the incumbent wins.