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Is SWAPI original domain (swapi.co) down?
FAILING right now — answering HTTP 200 to plain requests: redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data.
Last checked 2026-09-11T19:30:46Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 0% · 7d: 0% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events
Failing streak began 2026-08-31T18:30:00Z or earlier (11 days — dead, not a blip) · last successful check: none in the last 7 days
Context: The ORIGINAL Star Wars API domain (shut down around 2020, succeeded by swapi.dev). Every swapi.co URL in older tutorials now redirects to Pipedream's SWAPI integration marketing page — HTML, not JSON, so res.json() throws.
What we check: GET https://swapi.co/api/people/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 swapi.co 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=ecommerceRead the honest SWAPI original domain (swapi.co) migration guide → (it also says when SWAPI original domain (swapi.co) 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 swapi.co? 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/swapi-co"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/swapi-co/badge.svg" alt="swapi.co 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 swapi.co 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": "swapi-co", "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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-11T19:30:46Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 1083 ms |
| 2026-09-11T19:30:23Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 803 ms |
| 2026-09-11T18:30:13Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 550 ms |
| 2026-09-11T17:30:25Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 1455 ms |
| 2026-09-11T16:30:23Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 1354 ms |
| 2026-09-11T13:30:59Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 670 ms |
| 2026-09-11T12:30:47Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 466 ms |
| 2026-09-11T11:30:47Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 452 ms |
| 2026-09-11T10:30:47Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 524 ms |
| 2026-09-11T09:30:46Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 528 ms |
| 2026-09-11T08:30:46Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 447 ms |
| 2026-09-11T07:30:46Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 505 ms |
| 2026-09-11T06:30:48Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 750 ms |
| 2026-09-11T05:31:09Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 443 ms |
| 2026-09-11T04:31:08Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 470 ms |
| 2026-09-11T03:31:04Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 839 ms |
| 2026-09-11T02:31:08Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 521 ms |
| 2026-09-11T01:31:05Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 496 ms |
| 2026-09-11T00:31:08Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 473 ms |
| 2026-09-10T23:31:04Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 486 ms |
| 2026-09-10T22:31:05Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 796 ms |
| 2026-09-10T21:31:06Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 558 ms |
| 2026-09-10T20:30:24Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 676 ms |
| 2026-09-10T19:30:24Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 1037 ms |
| 2026-09-10T18:30:27Z | HTTP 200 redirects to a Pipedream marketing page — no API data | 1047 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.