Is SWAPI (swapi.dev) down right now?

No — SWAPI (swapi.dev) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 200 in 846 ms (checked 2026-09-11T20:30:47Z). We check swapi.dev with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 100%.

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Is SWAPI (swapi.dev) down?

UP right now — answered HTTP 200 in 846 ms.

Last checked 2026-09-11T20:30:47Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 100% · 7d: 99.5% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Context: Community-run Star Wars API with repeated certificate-expiry outages — one took Angular’s own docs example down in April 2025. Read-only (no writes). Static mirror: swapi.info.

What we check: GET https://swapi.dev/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.dev 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 SWAPI (swapi.dev) migration guide → (it also says when SWAPI (swapi.dev) 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.dev? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

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

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<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/swapi-dev"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/swapi-dev/badge.svg" alt="swapi.dev 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.dev 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-dev", "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
2026-09-11T20:30:47Z	OK 200	846 ms
2026-09-11T20:30:22Z	OK 200	210 ms
2026-09-11T19:30:45Z	OK 200	948 ms
2026-09-11T19:30:23Z	OK 200	164 ms
2026-09-11T18:30:12Z	OK 200	803 ms
2026-09-11T17:30:24Z	OK 200	824 ms
2026-09-11T16:30:21Z	OK 200	846 ms
2026-09-11T13:30:57Z	OK 200	905 ms
2026-09-11T12:30:47Z	OK 200	309 ms
2026-09-11T11:30:46Z	OK 200	217 ms
2026-09-11T10:30:47Z	OK 200	178 ms
2026-09-11T09:30:46Z	OK 200	226 ms
2026-09-11T08:30:46Z	OK 200	263 ms
2026-09-11T07:30:46Z	OK 200	124 ms
2026-09-11T06:30:47Z	OK 200	163 ms
2026-09-11T05:31:09Z	OK 200	135 ms
2026-09-11T04:31:08Z	OK 200	246 ms
2026-09-11T03:31:04Z	OK 200	113 ms
2026-09-11T02:31:07Z	OK 200	141 ms
2026-09-11T01:31:05Z	OK 200	97 ms
2026-09-11T00:31:07Z	OK 200	258 ms
2026-09-10T23:31:04Z	OK 200	213 ms
2026-09-10T22:31:05Z	OK 200	243 ms
2026-09-10T21:31:05Z	OK 200	65 ms
2026-09-10T20:30:24Z	OK 200	886 ms
2026-09-10T19:30:24Z	OK 200	1207 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.