Endpoint / GET request

https://api.getping.info/QvpXmD/hello

* This is just an example, please sign in to see your own unique endpoint

Parameters

Response

content-length: 43
content-type: image/gif
status: 200

Our API will respond to any request with a simple, transparent 1x1 gif image.

Examples:

Shell / cURL

curl https://api.getping.info/QvpXmD/hello

You can run this command in your terminal.

Monitor systemd restarts

[Unit]
Description=my_app

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/my_app
ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/curl https://api.getping.info/QvpXmD/app_restarted
Restart=always
RestartSec=5

For most Linux distributions, Systemd will be the officially support init process. This is a sample .service file to show how you can get notified when your service gets restarted.

Monitor Cron job

# m h  dom mon dow   command
0 9 * * * /path/to/task.sh && curl https://api.getping.info/QvpXmD/task_executed

Cron is normally used to schedule a job that is executed periodically. You can append an API call as shown in the example to get notified.

HTML / Email

<img src="https://api.getping.info/QvpXmD/seen">

Since the API returns a transparent 1x1 gif image, you can use it on your web page (or email) to count the hits like shown above.

Python

import requests

r = requests.get("https://api.getping.info/QvpXmD/ping")

Python make this very simple.

PHP

file_get_contents("https://api.getping.info/QvpXmD/notify");

Making a GET request in PHP is easy enough, one line of code...

JavaScript

fetch("https://api.getping.info/QvpXmD/notify");

One line of code in javascript to get your notification.

jQuery

$.ajax({url:"https://api.getping.info/QvpXmD/notify"});

This can also be done with jquery/ajax