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Code snippets

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
}