xkcd

About xkcd

The JSON interface provides programmatic access to xkcd comic data. Requests to URLs such as https://xkcd.com/info.0.json return the current comic, while https://xkcd.com/614/info.0.json returns a specific numbered comic.

Each response contains plaintext, easily-parsed metadata: comic titles, URLs, post dates, and transcripts when available.

The interface is intended for developers who want to fetch xkcd comics and their associated metadata automatically rather than scraping the site's HTML pages.

Key features

• Provides a JSON API to fetch xkcd comic metadata
• Returns current comic via a fixed info.0.json endpoint
• Returns any specific comic by number via a per-comic info.0.json URL
• Includes comic title, URL, post date, and transcript when available

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