Public APIs Health API

Service health check.

Operations 1

GET /health Health check #

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OpenAPI Specification

public-apis-health-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Public APIs Categories Health API
  description: 'A RESTful API for programmatically accessing the public-apis directory data. The API supports CORS and requires no authentication. All responses are served over HTTPS. Original source: davemachado/public-api.'
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Dave Machado
    url: https://github.com/davemachado/public-api
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://github.com/davemachado/public-api/blob/master/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://api.publicapis.org
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Health
  description: Service health check.
paths:
  /health:
    get:
      summary: Health check
      description: Check health of the running service.
      operationId: getHealth
      tags:
      - Health
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Service is healthy
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  status:
                    type: string