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Excuser

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

😄 FunHEALTHYchecked 3h ago
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.

96HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 96 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
303P50 · ms
932P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 130 ms, slowest 803 ms, most recent 261 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
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 · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /v1/excuse303 mschecked 3h ago
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

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

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).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?

As of our last scheduled check, Excuser is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 303 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.