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VA Facilities — free tier with API key

🗺 Geo & MapsHEALTHYchecked 2h ago
AUTH APIKEYCORS ✗AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

VA Facilities exposes a free-tier JSON API. Register for an API key if required; we verified a public or demo endpoint.

85HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 85 · healthy
Uptime history
99.44%90 days
100%30 days
876P50 · ms
2720P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 381 ms, slowest 1635 ms, most recent 1350 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://sandbox-api.va.gov/

{
  "message": "Welcome to the va.gov API"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://sandbox-api.va.gov/"
const res = await fetch("https://sandbox-api.va.gov/");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://sandbox-api.va.gov/")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 2HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /876 mschecked 2h ago
GET/PROBED

VA Facilities — free tier with API key

GET/?limit=5

Paginated variant with limit parameter.

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.

VA Facilities: common questions

Is VA Facilities free to use?

Yes — VA Facilities is a free geo & maps API. Free tier: Free tier — API key required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does VA Facilities need an API key?

Yes — VA Facilities needs a free API key, which you pass on each request. Rate limits: Unpublished.

Can I call VA Facilities from the browser?

Not directly — VA Facilities doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is VA Facilities up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, VA Facilities is healthy with 99.44% uptime over 90 days and a 876 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.