Musk as a Service

One endpoint. One random news article about our Lord and Savior, Elon Musk, as JSON. Free, no key, no signup. /s

GET https://elonmu.sh/api 200 OK · example

Example Daily · Oct 22, 2026

Musk announces plan to announce a plan

Sources close to the announcement say the announcement will be announced shortly.

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{
  "source": "Example Daily",
  "title": "Musk announces plan to announce a plan",
  "description": "Sources close to…",
  "url": "https://example.com/plan",
  "urlImage": "https://example.com/plan.jpg",
  "publishDate": "2026-10-22T09:00:00Z"
}

`GET /api`

Returns one random English-language news article about Elon Musk, picked from the latest page of NewsAPI results. No parameters, no headers, no API key.

Response fields

Field	Type	Description
`source`	string	Publication name
`title`	string	Headline
`description`	string \| null	Summary from the publisher
`url`	string	Link to the full article
`urlImage`	string \| null	Lead image URL
`publishDate`	string	ISO 8601 timestamp

Request

curl https://elonmu.sh/api

Response · 200

{
  "source": "Business Insider",
  "title": "Elon Musk's 10 most colorful quotes from Tesla's investor day",
  "description": "Musk joked about charging mishaps.",
  "url": "https://example.com/elon-musk-investor-day",
  "urlImage": "https://example.com/elon.jpg",
  "publishDate": "2023-03-02T11:37:41Z"
}

Errors

Errors come back as JSON with a single error message. When NewsAPI is down or unreachable, the status is still 200: we are fine, it is the news that failed. Our own mistakes are a 500.

Status	When
`200`	NewsAPI returned an error or never answered
`500`	Something broke on our side
`404`	Any other path. The body is plain text: `does not compute...`

Response · 200

{
  "error": "There was an error with NewsAPI. Please try again later."
}

A rocket breaking apart mid-flight — Fig. 1: a 500, in production.

What developers are saying

We replaced our news team with a single curl. Morale is down, but uptime is divine.

Priya Null, CTO at a Series Z startup