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What The Commit

What The Commit — auto-discovered JSON endpoint

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79HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 79 · healthy
Uptime history
99.02%90 days
98.3%30 days
1312P50 · ms
4279P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 339 ms, slowest 4279 ms, most recent 550 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET http://whatthecommit.com/index.json

{
  "hash": "fb4bac5ee92aaa19cf94d72d61934ed2",
  "commit_message": "This is supposed to crash",
  "permalink": "http://whatthecommit.com/fb4bac5ee92aaa19cf94d72d61934ed2"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "http://whatthecommit.com/index.json"
const res = await fetch("http://whatthecommit.com/index.json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("http://whatthecommit.com/index.json")
print(res.json())

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

Endpoints · 2HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /index.json1312 mschecked 2h ago
GET/index.jsonPROBED

What The Commit — auto-discovered JSON endpoint

GET/index.json?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.

What The Commit: common questions

Is What The Commit free to use?

Yes — What The Commit is a free developer tools API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does What The Commit need an API key?

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call What The Commit from the browser?

Not directly — What The Commit 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 What The Commit up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, What The Commit is healthy with 99.02% uptime over 90 days and a 1312 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.