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Retrieve xkcd comics as JSON

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# Fetch current comic and metadata.
curl "http://xkcd.com/info.0.json"

From xkcd's OpenAPI specification (version 1.0.0), spec updated April 7, 2021, via APIs.guru.

Webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Base URL: http://xkcd.com
Endpoints: 2
Machine-readable spec: OpenAPI JSON (import into Postman, Insomnia or a code generator)

Method	Path	What it does
GET	`/info.0.json`	Fetch current comic and metadata.
GET	`/{comicId}/info.0.json`	Fetch comics and metadata by comic id.