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icanhazdadjoke

Fun & Random No key

AuthenticationNo key
Rate limitNo key and no published hard limit; just use it reasonably.

Documentation: icanhazdadjoke.com ยท Checked Sep 13, 2026

About

icanhazdadjoke is a free joke service with thousands of dad jokes in its database. Send one web request and get back a random joke as simple text or structured data. You can also fetch a specific joke by ID or search jokes by keyword. No sign-up or key needed.

Details

No key needed. You can call it right away.

Auth: No key

Rate limit: No key and no published hard limit; just use it reasonably.

Verified: 2026-09-13

Best for: jokes chatbots icebreakers

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Setup

  1. Open https://icanhazdadjoke.com/api in your browser to see how it works.
  2. To get a joke as data, request https://icanhazdadjoke.com/ with the header 'Accept: application/json'.
  3. Use the 'joke' field from the response wherever you want the joke to appear.
  4. Search jokes by keyword: https://icanhazdadjoke.com/search?term=dog (same header).
  5. That's it - no account or key to set up.
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