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Jokes

Programming and general jokes

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https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/randomjoke https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/jokes/random https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/types https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/randomten https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/jokes/ten Usage: https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/jokes/random/ For example: The endpoints are jokes/:type/random or jokes/:type/ten. For example: https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/jokes/programming/random https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/jokes/programming/ten Use endpoint /jokes/:id The majority of these jokes were contributed by joke-loving coders around…

15Dkatz/official_joke_api on GitHub A short preview, not the full document.

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Inside the original README — Document outline
  1. Official Joke API
  2. Endpoints:
  3. Grab a random joke
  4. Get joke types
  5. Grab ten random jokes
  6. Grab any number of random jokes
  7. Grab jokes by type
  8. Grab joke by id
  9. How these jokes were collected
  10. Make a contribution!
  11. Run Locally

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  1. First observed: Sep 20, 2026
  2. Last directory-field change: Sep 20, 2026
  3. Current source observation: Sep 20, 2026

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