Is balldontlie (NBA API) down right now?

Effectively yes for script/tutorial use — balldontlie (NBA API) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 404 (checked 2026-09-11T19:30:45Z). We check www.balldontlie.io with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 0%.

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Is balldontlie (NBA API) down?

FAILING right now — answering HTTP 404 to plain requests.

Last checked 2026-09-11T19:30:45Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 0% · 7d: 0% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Failing streak began 2026-08-31T15:30:00Z or earlier (11 days — dead, not a blip) · last successful check: none in the last 7 days

Context: The free NBA-stats API from years of React and data-science tutorials dropped keyless access — the old /api/v1/... URLs answer 404, and the current api.balldontlie.io requires an account API key (keyless requests get 401 Unauthorized).

What we check: GET https://www.balldontlie.io/api/v1/players — 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 www.balldontlie.io 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 balldontlie (NBA API) migration guide → (it also says when balldontlie (NBA API) 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 www.balldontlie.io? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

<!-- Markdown -->
[![www.balldontlie.io status](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/balldontlie/badge.svg)](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/balldontlie)

<!-- HTML -->
<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/balldontlie"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/balldontlie/badge.svg" alt="www.balldontlie.io 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 www.balldontlie.io 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": "balldontlie", "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
2026-09-11T19:30:45Z	HTTP 404	337 ms
2026-09-11T19:30:23Z	HTTP 404	513 ms
2026-09-11T18:30:12Z	HTTP 404	313 ms
2026-09-11T17:30:25Z	HTTP 404	423 ms
2026-09-11T16:30:22Z	HTTP 404	372 ms
2026-09-11T13:30:58Z	HTTP 404	382 ms
2026-09-11T12:30:47Z	HTTP 404	275 ms
2026-09-11T11:30:47Z	HTTP 404	305 ms
2026-09-11T10:30:47Z	HTTP 404	232 ms
2026-09-11T09:30:46Z	HTTP 404	308 ms
2026-09-11T08:30:46Z	HTTP 404	203 ms
2026-09-11T07:30:46Z	HTTP 404	256 ms
2026-09-11T06:30:47Z	HTTP 404	413 ms
2026-09-11T05:31:09Z	HTTP 404	312 ms
2026-09-11T04:31:08Z	HTTP 404	304 ms
2026-09-11T03:31:04Z	HTTP 404	326 ms
2026-09-11T02:31:08Z	HTTP 404	306 ms
2026-09-11T01:31:05Z	HTTP 404	288 ms
2026-09-11T00:31:08Z	HTTP 404	312 ms
2026-09-10T23:31:04Z	HTTP 404	291 ms
2026-09-10T22:31:05Z	HTTP 404	296 ms
2026-09-10T21:31:05Z	HTTP 404	342 ms
2026-09-10T20:30:24Z	HTTP 404	346 ms
2026-09-10T19:30:24Z	HTTP 404	321 ms
2026-09-10T18:30:27Z	HTTP 404	379 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.