Is RequestBin (requestb.in) down right now?

Effectively yes for script/tutorial use — RequestBin (requestb.in) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 403 (checked 2026-09-11T19:00:22Z). We check requestb.in with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 0%.

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Is RequestBin (requestb.in) down?

FAILING right now — answering HTTP 403 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 2026-08-27T20:30:59Z or earlier (15 days — dead, not a blip) · last successful check: none in the last 7 days

Context: Shut down in 2018; the domain now redirects to Pipedream's signup-walled product — every saved requestb.in bin URL answers 403.

What we check: GET https://requestb.in/1abcdef1 — 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 request bin that's still alive?

If requestb.in is failing (or you're tired of finding out mid-demo), Mockbird gives you a request bin whose URL never expires — method, headers (webhook signatures included) and body captured in an inspector, with control over the response — free, no signup:

curl -X POST "https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/m/demo/hooks/anything" \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"hello":"bin"}'
# see it captured (public demo inspector):
curl "https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/projects/demo/requests"

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

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<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/requestb-in"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/requestb-in/badge.svg" alt="requestb.in 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 requestb.in 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": "requestb-in", "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 403	17 ms
2026-09-11T19:00:14Z	HTTP 403	27 ms
2026-09-11T18:00:26Z	HTTP 403	18 ms
2026-09-11T17:00:32Z	HTTP 403	33 ms
2026-09-11T16:00:24Z	HTTP 403	34 ms
2026-09-11T15:13:32Z	HTTP 403	197 ms
2026-09-11T14:00:57Z	HTTP 403	54 ms
2026-09-11T12:00:45Z	HTTP 403	51 ms
2026-09-11T11:00:45Z	HTTP 403	30 ms
2026-09-11T10:00:45Z	HTTP 403	19 ms
2026-09-11T09:00:45Z	HTTP 403	19 ms
2026-09-11T08:00:45Z	HTTP 403	28 ms
2026-09-11T07:00:45Z	HTTP 403	60 ms
2026-09-11T06:01:09Z	HTTP 403	8 ms
2026-09-11T05:01:07Z	HTTP 403	8 ms
2026-09-11T04:01:10Z	HTTP 403	13 ms
2026-09-11T03:01:09Z	HTTP 403	7 ms
2026-09-11T02:01:04Z	HTTP 403	7 ms
2026-09-11T01:01:06Z	HTTP 403	15 ms
2026-09-11T00:01:08Z	HTTP 403	9 ms
2026-09-10T23:01:07Z	HTTP 403	7 ms
2026-09-10T22:01:06Z	HTTP 403	17 ms
2026-09-10T21:00:26Z	HTTP 403	21 ms
2026-09-10T20:00:28Z	HTTP 403	28 ms
2026-09-10T19:00:33Z	HTTP 403	23 ms
2026-09-10T18:00:39Z	HTTP 403	29 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.