Is GitHub Jobs API (jobs.github.com) down right now?

Effectively yes for script/tutorial use — GitHub Jobs API (jobs.github.com) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 403 (checked 2026-09-26T00:00:52Z). We check jobs.github.com with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 0%.

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Is GitHub Jobs API (jobs.github.com) down?

FAILING right now — answering HTTP 403 to plain requests.

Last checked 2026-09-26T00:00:52Z · checked every hour (a timeout/TLS/DNS blip on an otherwise-up service is confirmed with a same-run retry before it counts) · OK-rate 24h: 0% · 7d: 0% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Failing streak began 2026-09-16T11:30:30Z or earlier (10 days — dead, not a blip) · last successful check: none in the last 7 days

Context: The job-board API behind a generation of React/fetch tutorials and Frontend Mentor challenges. GitHub deprecated it in 2021 (no new postings after May 19, 2021; full shutdown August 19, 2021) — today the hostname resolves to 0.0.0.0 and connections are refused outright, so every positions.json fetch in pre-2021 tutorials throws a network error.

What we check: GET https://jobs.github.com/positions.json — 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 jobs.github.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 GitHub Jobs API (jobs.github.com) migration guide → (it also says when GitHub Jobs API (jobs.github.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 jobs.github.com? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

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

<!-- HTML -->
<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/github-jobs"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/github-jobs/badge.svg" alt="jobs.github.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 90.

Get pinged when it goes down

Subscribe any webhook URL — no account needed. One message when jobs.github.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": "github-jobs", "url": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T000/B000/XXXX"}'

Use "service": "*" to watch all 90 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
2026-09-26T00:00:52Z	HTTP 403	20 ms
2026-09-25T23:00:52Z	HTTP 403	28 ms
2026-09-25T22:00:52Z	HTTP 403	10 ms
2026-09-25T21:01:06Z	HTTP 403	36 ms
2026-09-25T20:00:58Z	HTTP 403	22 ms
2026-09-25T19:01:18Z	HTTP 403	35 ms
2026-09-25T18:01:13Z	HTTP 403	46 ms
2026-09-25T17:01:12Z	HTTP 403	25 ms
2026-09-25T16:01:05Z	HTTP 403	26 ms
2026-09-25T15:01:10Z	HTTP 403	21 ms
2026-09-25T14:01:24Z	HTTP 403	40 ms
2026-09-25T13:01:17Z	HTTP 403	31 ms
2026-09-25T12:01:08Z	HTTP 403	18 ms
2026-09-25T11:01:18Z	HTTP 403	40 ms
2026-09-25T10:01:02Z	HTTP 403	25 ms
2026-09-25T09:00:56Z	HTTP 403	26 ms
2026-09-25T08:01:13Z	HTTP 403	23 ms
2026-09-25T07:01:06Z	HTTP 403	18 ms
2026-09-25T06:01:09Z	HTTP 403	33 ms
2026-09-25T05:00:50Z	HTTP 403	46 ms
2026-09-25T04:00:47Z	HTTP 403	23 ms
2026-09-25T03:00:57Z	HTTP 403	32 ms
2026-09-25T02:00:53Z	HTTP 403	52 ms
2026-09-25T01:00:49Z	HTTP 403	15 ms
2026-09-25T00:00:52Z	HTTP 403	26 ms
2026-09-24T23:00:58Z	HTTP 403	99 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.