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Is randomuser.me down?

UP right now — answered HTTP 200 in 428 ms.

Last checked 2026-09-12T14:00:27Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 100% · 7d: 100% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Context: Generator only: read-only (writes 404), no single-user URL, field filters ignored. Its sibling uinames.com is already dead.

What we check: GET https://randomuser.me/api/?results=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 fake-data REST API that answers?

If randomuser.me is failing (or you're tired of finding out mid-demo), Mockbird gives you a seeded fake-data REST API that answers right now — and unlike the classics, writes actually persist — free, no signup:

curl https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/m/demo/products/1

Read the honest randomuser.me migration guide → (it also says when randomuser.me 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 randomuser.me? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

<!-- Markdown -->
[![randomuser.me status](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/randomuser/badge.svg)](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/randomuser)

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

Subscribe

Or from a terminal / CI script:

curl -X POST https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/status/watch \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"service": "randomuser", "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
2026-09-12T14:00:27Z	OK 200	428 ms
2026-09-12T14:00:22Z	OK 200	319 ms
2026-09-12T13:00:25Z	OK 200	353 ms
2026-09-12T13:00:22Z	OK 200	356 ms
2026-09-12T12:00:23Z	OK 200	281 ms
2026-09-12T12:00:22Z	OK 200	1393 ms
2026-09-12T11:00:21Z	OK 200	123 ms
2026-09-12T11:00:11Z	OK 200	292 ms
2026-09-12T10:00:29Z	OK 200	272 ms
2026-09-12T10:00:21Z	OK 200	91 ms
2026-09-12T09:00:21Z	OK 200	93 ms
2026-09-12T09:00:18Z	OK 200	696 ms
2026-09-12T08:00:21Z	OK 200	62 ms
2026-09-12T08:00:08Z	OK 200	268 ms
2026-09-12T07:00:21Z	OK 200	84 ms
2026-09-12T07:00:13Z	OK 200	287 ms
2026-09-12T06:00:21Z	OK 200	42 ms
2026-09-12T06:00:19Z	OK 200	278 ms
2026-09-12T05:00:22Z	OK 200	285 ms
2026-09-12T05:00:21Z	OK 200	56 ms
2026-09-12T04:00:21Z	OK 200	115 ms
2026-09-12T04:00:03Z	OK 200	266 ms
2026-09-12T03:00:21Z	OK 200	202 ms
2026-09-12T03:00:15Z	OK 200	261 ms
2026-09-12T02:00:24Z	OK 200	267 ms
2026-09-12T02:00:21Z	OK 200	95 ms
2026-09-12T01:00:21Z	OK 200	91 ms
2026-09-12T01:00:18Z	OK 200	267 ms
2026-09-12T00:00:40Z	OK 200	270 ms
2026-09-12T00:00:21Z	OK 200	109 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.