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Excuser

Random ready-made excuses, tagged by category, as JSON

😄 FunUNMONITORED
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ?HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

A tiny novelty API that hands back a random excuse whenever you need one, sorted into categories like funny, office and family. Each call returns a small JSON array with an id, the excuse text and its category. The original Heroku deployment retired, so it now lives on a Vercel host.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
▶ Run liveDocs ↗
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
GET https://excuser-three.vercel.app/v1/excuse

[
  {
    "id": 502,
    "excuse": "My car radio was broken, and I couldn't drive if I didn't have music.",
    "category": "funny"
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://excuser-three.vercel.app/v1/excuse"
const res = await fetch("https://excuser-three.vercel.app/v1/excuse");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://excuser-three.vercel.app/v1/excuse")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /v1/excuse awaits first probe
GET/v1/excusePROBED

Random ready-made excuses, tagged by category, as JSON

GET/v1

V1 — documented GET route.

GET/v1/1

V1 details by ID (example: 1).

GET/v1?limit=10

V1 — documented GET route.

GET/v1/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/v1/

V1 — documented GET 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

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

Excuser: common questions

Is Excuser free to use?

Yes — Excuser 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 Excuser need an API key?

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Excuser from the browser?

Yes — Excuser 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 Excuser up right now?

Excuser is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.