Is ZenQuotes (zenquotes.io) down right now?

No — ZenQuotes (zenquotes.io) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 200 in 780 ms (checked 2026-09-11T20:30:48Z). We check zenquotes.io with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 100%.

← all 71 tracked mock & placeholder APIs

Is ZenQuotes (zenquotes.io) down?

UP right now — answered HTTP 200 in 780 ms.

Last checked 2026-09-11T20:30:48Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 100% · 7d: 95.9% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Context: The most-recommended replacement for the dead quotable.io — but keyless responses send NO CORS headers (a browser fetch() from another origin fails outright; curl and server-side calls are fine), and it rate-limits hard: a burst of ~5 quick requests already answers 429.

What we check: GET https://zenquotes.io/api/random — 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 zenquotes.io 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 ZenQuotes (zenquotes.io) migration guide → (it also says when ZenQuotes (zenquotes.io) 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 zenquotes.io? 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/zenquotes"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/zenquotes/badge.svg" alt="zenquotes.io 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 zenquotes.io 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": "zenquotes", "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
2026-09-11T20:30:48Z	OK 200	780 ms
2026-09-11T20:30:23Z	OK 200	3693 ms
2026-09-11T19:30:47Z	OK 200	821 ms
2026-09-11T19:30:24Z	OK 200	4557 ms
2026-09-11T18:30:13Z	OK 200	1451 ms
2026-09-11T17:30:27Z	OK 200	2650 ms
2026-09-11T16:30:25Z	OK 200	917 ms
2026-09-11T13:31:01Z	OK 200	775 ms
2026-09-11T12:30:48Z	OK 200	254 ms
2026-09-11T11:30:48Z	OK 200	305 ms
2026-09-11T10:30:48Z	OK 200	269 ms
2026-09-11T09:30:47Z	OK 200	224 ms
2026-09-11T08:30:47Z	OK 200	331 ms
2026-09-11T07:30:47Z	OK 200	1696 ms
2026-09-11T06:30:49Z	OK 200	1636 ms
2026-09-11T05:31:09Z	OK 200	260 ms
2026-09-11T04:31:08Z	OK 200	1554 ms
2026-09-11T03:31:04Z	OK 200	249 ms
2026-09-11T02:31:08Z	OK 200	2026 ms
2026-09-11T01:31:05Z	OK 200	1746 ms
2026-09-11T00:31:08Z	OK 200	240 ms
2026-09-10T23:31:04Z	OK 200	285 ms
2026-09-10T22:31:06Z	OK 200	256 ms
2026-09-10T21:31:06Z	OK 200	245 ms
2026-09-10T20:30:25Z	OK 200	3666 ms
2026-09-10T19:30:25Z	OK 200	5851 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.