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Advice Slip

Random one-line life advice, served as JSON

😄 FunHEALTHYchecked 9h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

The Advice Slip API dishes out random pieces of advice, one slip at a time. Call /advice and you get a JSON object with an id and a single line of (often tongue-in-cheek) wisdom. No key, no signup, just advice.

76HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 76 · healthy
Uptime history
80.3%90 days
98.3%30 days
340P50 · ms
4960P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 63 ms, slowest 1184 ms, most recent 119 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.adviceslip.com/advice

{
  "slip": {
    "id": 108,
    "advice": "Don't ever name files or folders using the word \"Final\"."
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.adviceslip.com/advice"
const res = await fetch("https://api.adviceslip.com/advice");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.adviceslip.com/advice")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /advice340 mschecked 9h ago
GET/advicePROBED

Random one-line life advice, served as JSON

GET/advice?limit=5

Paginated variant with limit parameter.

GET/advice/1

Advice details by ID (example: 1).

GET/advice/%7Bslip_id%7D

%7Bslip Id%7D — documented GET route.

GET/advice/search/spiders

Search by query parameters.

GET/advice/search/%7Bquery%7D

Search by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Advice Slip: common questions

Is Advice Slip free to use?

Yes — Advice Slip is a free fun API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Advice Slip need an API key?

No — Advice Slip needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Advice Slip from the browser?

Yes — Advice Slip returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Advice Slip up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Advice Slip is healthy with 80.3% uptime over 90 days and a 340 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.