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GET /v1/latest

The most recent comic

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api.oanor.com/xkcd-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/xkcd-api/v1/latest" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/xkcd-api/v1/latest", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/xkcd-api/v1/latest");
curl_setopt($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/xkcd-api/v1/latest",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "comic": {
            "alt": "SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.",
            "date": "2026-05-29",
            "link": null,
            "news": null,
            "image": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ancestral_genomes.png",
            "title": "Ancestral Genomes",
            "number": 3252,
            "comic_url": "https://xkcd.com/3252/",
            "safe_title": "Ancestral Genomes",
            "transcript": null,
            "explain_url": "https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3252"
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T00:04:28.832Z",
        "request_id": "38672f42-4890-4500-a0e2-86611a7e88e1"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Latest comic retrieved",
    "success": true
}