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RandomUser

Fake but realistic user profiles for your test fixtures

🔧 Developer ToolsHEALTHYchecked 40 min ago
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Generates lifelike random people with names, addresses, emails, logins, and photo URLs. Handy for seeding databases, mocking UIs, or load-testing forms without touching real PII. Returns clean JSON and supports nationality and field filters.

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Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
210P50 · ms
774P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 48 ms, slowest 526 ms, most recent 187 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://randomuser.me/api/

{
  "results": [
    {
      "gender": "female",
      "name": {
        "title": "Miss",
        "first": "Hilda",
        "last": "Phillips"
      },
      "email": "hilda.phillips@example.com",
      "login": {
        "username": "blueleopard165"
      }
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://randomuser.me/api/"
const res = await fetch("https://randomuser.me/api/");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://randomuser.me/api/")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 5HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /api/210 mschecked 40 min ago
GET/api/PROBED

Fake but realistic user profiles for your test fixtures

GET/api/?limit=5

Paginated variant with limit parameter.

GET/api/portraits/men/75.jpg

75 Jpg — documented GET route.

GET/api/portraits/med/men/75.jpg

75 Jpg — documented GET route.

GET/api/portraits/thumb/men/75.jpg

75 Jpg — 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.

RandomUser: common questions

Is RandomUser free to use?

Yes — RandomUser is a free developer tools API. Free tier: Free — no key or signup. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does RandomUser need an API key?

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call RandomUser from the browser?

Yes — RandomUser 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 RandomUser up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, RandomUser is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 210 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.