How to hit the Advice Slip API

Advice Slip at https://api.adviceslip.com hands out random pieces of advice, by id, or by search.

Random advice
Search advice

Authentication

None — no key, no signup. Every example runs as-is.

Full reference: https://api.adviceslip.com/

Random advice

curl https://api.adviceslip.com/advice

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Example response (trimmed)

{
  "slip": {
    "id": 139,
    "advice": "If you're going bald, don't comb your hair over your bald patch."
  }
}

Search advice

curl https://api.adviceslip.com/advice/search/coffee

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Example response (trimmed)

{
  "total_results": "1",
  "query": "coffee",
  "slips": [
    {
      "id": 219,
      "advice": "Try buying a coffee for the creator of a free public API, now and then.",
      "date": "2021-08-16"
    }
  ]
}