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Bacon Ipsum

Meat-flavored lorem ipsum placeholder text

🔧 Developer ToolsHEALTHYchecked 11h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Bacon Ipsum generates filler text seasoned with cuts of meat instead of Latin. Ask its JSON API for a number of paragraphs — all-meat or meat-and-filler — and it returns an array of savory placeholder strings. Free and keyless with open CORS.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 95 · healthy
Uptime history
99.02%90 days
100%30 days
366P50 · ms
1328P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 163 ms, slowest 1083 ms, most recent 386 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://baconipsum.com/api/?type=meat-and-filler&paras=2&format=json

[
  "Tri-tip filet mignon beef esse. Anim velit et mollit jerky ea voluptate. Quis ribeye cow consequat, capicola meatloaf in eu burgdoggen. …"
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://baconipsum.com/api/?type=meat-and-filler&paras=2&format=json"
const res = await fetch("https://baconipsum.com/api/?type=meat-and-filler&paras=2&format=json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://baconipsum.com/api/?type=meat-and-filler&paras=2&format=json")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /?type=meat-and-filler&paras=2&format=json366 mschecked 11h ago
GET/?type=meat-and-filler&paras=2&format=jsonPROBED

Meat-flavored lorem ipsum placeholder text

GET/?limit=5

Bacon Ipsum root or index route.

GET/?page=1

Bacon Ipsum root or index route.

GET/?type=meat-and-filler

API root or index route.

GET/?type=all-meat&paras=2&start-with-lorem=1

API root or index route.

GET/?type=all-meat&sentences=1&start-with-lorem=1

API root or index route.

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.

Bacon Ipsum: common questions

Is Bacon Ipsum free to use?

Yes — Bacon Ipsum is a free developer tools API. Free tier: Free — no key required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Bacon Ipsum need an API key?

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Bacon Ipsum from the browser?

Yes — Bacon Ipsum 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 Bacon Ipsum up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Bacon Ipsum is healthy with 99.02% uptime over 90 days and a 366 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.