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Is REST Countries (restcountries.com) down?
FAILING right now — answering HTTP 200 to plain requests: body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null).
Last checked 2026-09-11T19:30:44Z · 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: Retired every legacy version (/v1–/v4) in 2026: those URLs now answer HTTP 200 with an error envelope — res.ok passes, data is null. The current v5 requires an API key (free tier 1,000 req/month).
What we check: GET https://restcountries.com/v3.1/all?fields=name,cca2 — 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 reference data you own?
If restcountries.com is failing (or you're tired of finding out mid-demo), Mockbird gives you your own copy of the reference data — 250 countries (names, ISO codes, capitals, regions, currencies, flags) or 170+ currencies with dated sample rates — served as a queryable REST API in one pipe, no key, no monthly cap — free, no signup:
curl -s https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/data/countries.db.json \
| curl -s -X POST 'https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/projects/import?name=countries' \
--data-binary @-
# then e.g. ?region=Europe or ?code=FR on /m/YOUR_ID/countries
# currencies + sample rates: /data/currencies.db.json (see /guides/mock-exchange-rates-api)Read the honest REST Countries (restcountries.com) migration guide → (it also says when REST Countries (restcountries.com) is the better tool) or create your own mock API in one click.
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Does your project's test suite or tutorial depend on restcountries.com? 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/restcountries"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/restcountries/badge.svg" alt="restcountries.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 restcountries.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": "restcountries", "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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-11T19:30:44Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 40 ms |
| 2026-09-11T19:30:23Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 231 ms |
| 2026-09-11T18:30:12Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 24 ms |
| 2026-09-11T17:30:24Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 49 ms |
| 2026-09-11T16:30:20Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 28 ms |
| 2026-09-11T13:30:56Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 87 ms |
| 2026-09-11T12:30:46Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 59 ms |
| 2026-09-11T11:30:46Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 44 ms |
| 2026-09-11T10:30:46Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 61 ms |
| 2026-09-11T09:30:46Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 56 ms |
| 2026-09-11T08:30:46Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 162 ms |
| 2026-09-11T07:30:46Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 46 ms |
| 2026-09-11T06:30:46Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 141 ms |
| 2026-09-11T05:31:09Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 24 ms |
| 2026-09-11T04:31:08Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 27 ms |
| 2026-09-11T03:31:03Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 31 ms |
| 2026-09-11T02:31:07Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 22 ms |
| 2026-09-11T01:31:04Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 36 ms |
| 2026-09-11T00:31:07Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 25 ms |
| 2026-09-10T23:31:04Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 27 ms |
| 2026-09-10T22:31:05Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 25 ms |
| 2026-09-10T21:31:05Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 44 ms |
| 2026-09-10T20:30:24Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 42 ms |
| 2026-09-10T19:30:24Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 32 ms |
| 2026-09-10T18:30:27Z | HTTP 200 body is the legacy-API deprecation envelope (success:false, data:null) | 46 ms |
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