REFUGE Restrooms

Crowd-sourced safe, accessible, gender-neutral restrooms

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A community-maintained directory of restrooms that are safe for transgender, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people. Query by page or location to get names, addresses, coordinates, and accessibility flags as JSON. Open source and keyless.

HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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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://www.refugerestrooms.org/api/v1/restrooms.json?page=1&per_page=1

[
  {
    "id": 135563,
    "name": "Freddy Gryphon",
    "street": "204 sw yamhill dr",
    "city": "Portland",
    "state": "Or",
    "accessible": true,
    "unisex": true,
    "latitude": 45.5171983,
    "longitude": -122.6751862
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.refugerestrooms.org/api/v1/restrooms.json?page=1&per_page=1"
const res = await fetch("https://www.refugerestrooms.org/api/v1/restrooms.json?page=1&per_page=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.refugerestrooms.org/api/v1/restrooms.json?page=1&per_page=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 4On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /restrooms.json?page=1&per_page=1 awaits first probe
GET/restrooms.json?page=1&per_page=1PROBED

Crowd-sourced safe, accessible, gender-neutral restrooms

GET/restrooms.json?limit=5

Restrooms Json — documented GET route.

GET/restrooms.json?page=1

Restrooms Json — documented GET route.

GET/api/docs/

Docs — 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.

REFUGE Restrooms: common questions

Is REFUGE Restrooms free to use?

Yes — REFUGE Restrooms is a free transport API. Free tier: Free — no key required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does REFUGE Restrooms need an API key?

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call REFUGE Restrooms from the browser?

Yes — REFUGE Restrooms 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 REFUGE Restrooms up right now?

REFUGE Restrooms 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.