JokeAPI

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This runs in your browser, straight against the real API. Edit the URL and experiment — break nothing, learn everything.

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📸 Real response, captured by us

Not a mockup — this is what JokeAPI actually returned when we verified it on 23 Oct 2026 (in 1118 ms).

{
  "error": false,
  "category": "Programming",
  "type": "single",
  "joke": "Algorithm: A word used by programmers when they don't want to explain how their code works.",
  "flags": {
    "nsfw": false,
    "religious": false,
    "political": false,
    "racist": false,
    "sexist": false,
    "explicit": false
  },
  "id": 50,
  "safe": true,
  "lang": "en"
}

💻 Copy-paste code

Three ways to call JokeAPI — pick your weapon.

// JokeAPI — no build step, no library. Just fetch.
const res = await fetch("https://v2.jokeapi.dev/joke/Programming?type=single");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

# JokeAPI with Python requests
import requests

r = requests.get("https://v2.jokeapi.dev/joke/Programming?type=single")
print(r.status_code)
print(r.json())

# JokeAPI from your terminal
curl "https://v2.jokeapi.dev/joke/Programming?type=single"

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