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xkcd

The xkcd API returns JSON metadata (including title, image URL, alt text, and publication date) for either the current comic or a specific comic identified by its numeric ID.

Games & Comics

No auth required

HTTPS

CORS: No

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Latency

461ms p95

Uptime

100.0% 30d

Playground

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Endpoints

REST · JSON

GET

/info.0.json

Fetch current comic and metadata.

GET

/{comicId}/info.0.json

Fetch comics and metadata by comic id.

comicId (path, required)

2 endpoints auto-detected

curl -X GET \
  "https://xkcd.com/json.html/info.0.json"

xkcd.com · HTTPS only