Is Bored API (boredapi.com) down right now?

Effectively yes for script/tutorial use — Bored API (boredapi.com) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 530 (checked 2026-09-11T19:00:22Z). We check www.boredapi.com with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 0%.

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Is Bored API (boredapi.com) down?

FAILING right now — answering HTTP 530 to plain requests.

Last checked 2026-09-11T19:00:22Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 0% · 7d: 0% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Failing streak began 2026-08-29T06:30:44Z or earlier (14 days — dead, not a blip) · last successful check: none in the last 7 days

Context: The “I’m bored” activity API is gone — the domain no longer resolves (direct curls fail DNS; checks from Cloudflare’s network get HTTP 530). A community mirror lives at bored-api.appbrewery.com with the same response shape.

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

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

<!-- HTML -->
<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/boredapi"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/boredapi/badge.svg" alt="www.boredapi.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 www.boredapi.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": "boredapi", "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
2026-09-11T19:00:22Z	HTTP 530	33 ms
2026-09-11T19:00:14Z	HTTP 530	19 ms
2026-09-11T18:00:27Z	HTTP 530	23 ms
2026-09-11T17:00:34Z	HTTP 530	19 ms
2026-09-11T16:00:25Z	HTTP 530	18 ms
2026-09-11T15:13:34Z	HTTP 530	1038 ms
2026-09-11T14:00:58Z	HTTP 530	18 ms
2026-09-11T12:00:45Z	HTTP 530	31 ms
2026-09-11T11:00:45Z	HTTP 530	34 ms
2026-09-11T10:00:45Z	HTTP 530	31 ms
2026-09-11T09:00:45Z	HTTP 530	43 ms
2026-09-11T08:00:45Z	HTTP 530	30 ms
2026-09-11T07:00:45Z	HTTP 530	34 ms
2026-09-11T06:01:09Z	HTTP 530	14 ms
2026-09-11T05:01:08Z	HTTP 530	13 ms
2026-09-11T04:01:10Z	HTTP 530	13 ms
2026-09-11T03:01:09Z	HTTP 530	13 ms
2026-09-11T02:01:05Z	HTTP 530	14 ms
2026-09-11T01:01:07Z	HTTP 530	13 ms
2026-09-11T00:01:08Z	HTTP 530	13 ms
2026-09-10T23:01:07Z	HTTP 530	14 ms
2026-09-10T22:01:06Z	HTTP 530	15 ms
2026-09-10T21:00:26Z	HTTP 530	14 ms
2026-09-10T20:00:28Z	HTTP 530	16 ms
2026-09-10T19:00:33Z	HTTP 530	17 ms
2026-09-10T18:00:39Z	HTTP 530	21 ms
2026-09-10T17:00:57Z	HTTP 530	51 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.