/v1/meta
Spec
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curl "https://api.oanor.com/birthdayparadox-api/v1/meta" \ -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/birthdayparadox-api/v1/meta", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/birthdayparadox-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
"https://api.oanor.com/birthdayparadox-api/v1/meta",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)
Example response
A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.
{
"data": {
"notes": "Days/buckets default to 365. The exact product is used for small spaces; the e^(−n²/2d) approximation for very large ones. Handy for hash-collision and UUID-uniqueness estimates.",
"service": "birthdayparadox-api",
"endpoints": {
"GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
"GET /v1/collision": "Generalized collision probability for a hash/bucket space (by count or bits).",
"GET /v1/probability": "Collision probability for n people over d days.",
"GET /v1/people-needed": "Group size needed to reach a target collision probability."
},
"description": "Birthday paradox and generalized collision probability."
},
"meta": {
"timestamp": "2026-06-05T19:50:11.087Z",
"request_id": "6a64595c-6f73-4b24-9eee-5d1e6d42e32b"
},
"status": "ok",
"message": "Meta",
"success": true
}