/v1/meta
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curl "https://api.oanor.com/tldr-api/v1/meta" \ -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/tldr-api/v1/meta", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/tldr-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($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/tldr-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": "Simplified, example-driven help pages for command-line tools (the tldr-pages project). /v1/command returns the full page (description + practical example commands); /v1/search finds commands by name or description; /v1/random returns a random command.",
"total": 7045,
"fields": [
"name",
"platform",
"title",
"description",
"more_info",
"example_count",
"examples"
],
"source": "tldr-pages/tldr (CC-BY)",
"by_platform": {
"dos": 10,
"osx": 312,
"linux": 1932,
"sunos": 10,
"common": 4537,
"netbsd": 1,
"android": 13,
"freebsd": 4,
"openbsd": 3,
"windows": 212,
"cisco-ios": 11
}
},
"meta": {
"timestamp": "2026-05-31T09:49:21.329Z",
"request_id": "710de600-b683-49ac-8433-096e40529cc0"
},
"status": "ok",
"message": "Meta retrieved",
"success": true
}