Is Universities API (universities.hipolabs.com) down right now?

No — Universities API (universities.hipolabs.com) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 200 in 201 ms (checked 2026-09-26T00:30:44Z). We check universities.hipolabs.com with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 100%.

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Is Universities API (universities.hipolabs.com) down?

UP right now — answered HTTP 200 in 201 ms.

Last checked 2026-09-26T00:30:44Z · 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: 100% · 7d: 100% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Context: The university-search API behind countless autocomplete and country-dropdown tutorials. We probe it over http:// because its https:// fails the TLS handshake outright — which means browsers block it as mixed content from any https-served page (CodeSandbox, StackBlitz, Netlify, GitHub Pages), the #1 way tutorial-followers hit it. Bonus trap: the README's own example ?country=Turkey now returns [] — the dataset renamed the country to Turkiye.

What we check: GET http://universities.hipolabs.com/search?name=middle&limit=1 — 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 universities.hipolabs.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 Universities API (universities.hipolabs.com) migration guide → (it also says when Universities API (universities.hipolabs.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 universities.hipolabs.com? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

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[![universities.hipolabs.com status](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/hipolabs-universities/badge.svg)](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/hipolabs-universities)

<!-- HTML -->
<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/hipolabs-universities"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/hipolabs-universities/badge.svg" alt="universities.hipolabs.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 universities.hipolabs.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": "hipolabs-universities", "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
2026-09-26T00:30:44Z	OK 200	201 ms
2026-09-25T23:30:44Z	OK 200	210 ms
2026-09-25T22:30:45Z	OK 200	203 ms
2026-09-25T21:30:49Z	OK 200	211 ms
2026-09-25T20:30:50Z	OK 200	206 ms
2026-09-25T19:31:00Z	OK 200	218 ms
2026-09-25T18:30:54Z	OK 200	236 ms
2026-09-25T17:30:56Z	OK 200	222 ms
2026-09-25T16:30:56Z	OK 200	222 ms
2026-09-25T15:30:54Z	OK 200	319 ms
2026-09-25T14:31:04Z	OK 200	214 ms
2026-09-25T13:31:10Z	OK 200	247 ms
2026-09-25T12:31:06Z	OK 200	221 ms
2026-09-25T11:31:02Z	OK 200	225 ms
2026-09-25T10:30:55Z	OK 200	228 ms
2026-09-25T09:30:53Z	OK 200	236 ms
2026-09-25T08:31:02Z	OK 200	213 ms
2026-09-25T07:30:56Z	OK 200	247 ms
2026-09-25T06:30:52Z	OK 200	197 ms
2026-09-25T05:30:49Z	OK 200	214 ms
2026-09-25T04:30:48Z	OK 200	214 ms
2026-09-25T03:30:43Z	OK 200	219 ms
2026-09-25T02:30:43Z	OK 200	213 ms
2026-09-25T01:30:43Z	OK 200	217 ms
2026-09-25T00:30:46Z	OK 200	228 ms
2026-09-24T23:30:43Z	OK 200	203 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.