/v1/meta
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curl "https://api.oanor.com/openprocessing-api/v1/meta" \ -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/openprocessing-api/v1/meta", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/openprocessing-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($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/openprocessing-api/v1/meta",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)
Example response
A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.
{
"data": {
"note": "user is a numeric OpenProcessing userID; sketch is a numeric visualID (both visible in OpenProcessing URLs). Username lookup is not offered by the upstream, so ids are used. mode is the sketch engine (p5js, pjs, html).",
"source": "OpenProcessing public API (openprocessing.org/api, live)",
"service": "openprocessing-api",
"endpoints": {
"GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
"GET /v1/user": "Creator profile + total sketch count (user=1).",
"GET /v1/sketch": "A single sketch's detail incl. fork parent (sketch=13481).",
"GET /v1/social": "A creator's followers or following (user=1, type=followers).",
"GET /v1/sketches": "A creator's published sketches (user=1, limit=25, offset=0)."
},
"description": "Live creator and sketch data from OpenProcessing, the community for Processing / p5.js creative-coding sketches. user returns a creator's profile (username, name, bio, location, website, join date, total sketches); sketches lists a creator's published sketches; sketch returns a single sketch's detail (title, description, tags, license, libraries, fork parent, author); social returns a creator's followers or the accounts they follow. Live, no key, nothing stored. A creative-coding community stats API distinct from the code-hosting, package-registry and other social-platform APIs.",
"upstream_status": "ok",
"sample_user_total_sketches": 263
},
"meta": {
"timestamp": "2026-06-12T01:41:38.666Z",
"request_id": "a9349e21-5e68-4e74-9782-48f171329edc"
},
"status": "ok",
"message": "Meta",
"success": true
}