Is TheMealDB (themealdb.com) down right now?

No — TheMealDB (themealdb.com) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 200 in 55 ms (checked 2026-09-26T00:30:44Z). We check www.themealdb.com with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 100%.

← all 90 tracked mock & placeholder APIs

Is TheMealDB (themealdb.com) down?

UP right now — answered HTTP 200 in 55 ms.

Last checked 2026-09-26T00:30:44Z · checked every hour (a timeout/TLS/DNS blip on an otherwise-up service is confirmed with a same-run retry before it counts) · OK-rate 24h: 100% · 7d: 98.3% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Context: The recipe API behind nearly every recipe-app tutorial — alive and well-run. Known traps for tutorial-followers: no-match searches answer {"meals":null} (not an empty array, so .map() throws), the test key "1" is licensed for development/educational use only (app-store release requires becoming a supporter), and the free tier is read-only with listings capped at 100 items.

What we check: GET https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/search.php?s=chicken — 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 www.themealdb.com 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 TheMealDB (themealdb.com) migration guide → (it also says when TheMealDB (themealdb.com) 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 www.themealdb.com? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

<!-- Markdown -->
[![www.themealdb.com status](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/themealdb/badge.svg)](https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/themealdb)

<!-- HTML -->
<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/themealdb"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/themealdb/badge.svg" alt="www.themealdb.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 90.

Get pinged when it goes down

Subscribe any webhook URL — no account needed. One message when www.themealdb.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": "themealdb", "url": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T000/B000/XXXX"}'

Use "service": "*" to watch all 90 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
2026-09-26T00:30:44Z	OK 200	55 ms
2026-09-25T23:30:44Z	OK 200	50 ms
2026-09-25T22:30:45Z	OK 200	56 ms
2026-09-25T21:30:49Z	OK 200	58 ms
2026-09-25T20:30:51Z	OK 200	107 ms
2026-09-25T19:31:00Z	OK 200	73 ms
2026-09-25T18:30:54Z	OK 200	82 ms
2026-09-25T17:30:56Z	OK 200	69 ms
2026-09-25T16:30:56Z	OK 200	75 ms
2026-09-25T15:30:55Z	OK 200	75 ms
2026-09-25T14:31:05Z	OK 200	67 ms
2026-09-25T13:31:10Z	OK 200	68 ms
2026-09-25T12:31:06Z	OK 200	77 ms
2026-09-25T11:31:02Z	OK 200	73 ms
2026-09-25T10:30:55Z	OK 200	68 ms
2026-09-25T09:30:53Z	OK 200	55 ms
2026-09-25T08:31:03Z	OK 200	64 ms
2026-09-25T07:30:56Z	OK 200	58 ms
2026-09-25T06:30:52Z	OK 200	117 ms
2026-09-25T05:30:49Z	OK 200	54 ms
2026-09-25T04:30:48Z	OK 200	46 ms
2026-09-25T03:30:43Z	OK 200	118 ms
2026-09-25T02:30:43Z	OK 200	51 ms
2026-09-25T01:30:44Z	OK 200	57 ms
2026-09-25T00:30:46Z	OK 200	52 ms
2026-09-24T23:30:44Z	OK 200	57 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.