A list tells you an API exists. It cannot tell you the week it breaks — because a list has no memory. We check every API in this catalog weekly and keep the receipts; watching turns that memory into your early-warning system.
Every API that went down, recovered, or joined the catalog in the latest weekly run — a single stream:
https://freeapis.akclnt.com/watch.xml
Prefer the same truth as a page? The live status board shows it in HTML.
Every listing carries a personal watch feed at /watch/<name>.xml. Three popular ones:
🔔 Open-Meteo — https://freeapis.akclnt.com/watch/open-meteo.xml · its public history
🔔 PokeAPI — https://freeapis.akclnt.com/watch/pokeapi.xml · its public history
🔔 JSONPlaceholder — https://freeapis.akclnt.com/watch/jsonplaceholder.xml · its public history
The feed stays quiet while nothing changes and speaks the week the status flips — down, recovered, or reclassified. No daily noise, no "still alive" spam.
1. Copy the feed URL from any API's page (look for 🔔 Watch this API).
2. Paste it into any RSS reader — Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire — an RSS bot in your Slack or Discord, or your own script.
3. Done. No account here, no email required, nothing to install.
The honest print: checks run weekly, so an alert means "changed since the last check", not minute-by-minute monitoring. Sites promising free real-time monitoring of 1,600 APIs are selling a fiction; we would rather be weekly and truthful. Builders who need faster checks can poll the machine-readable status at /api/<name>.json as often as they like.
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