# Downdetector

A live outage tracker that charts problem reports from users and social media for apps, websites, ISPs and mobile networks, so you can tell whether a service is down for everyone or just for you.

- Category: Developer utilities · by Ookla
- Website: https://downdetector.com/
- Live data: yes
- Checked on the official pages: 2026-10-23

## API

- Official API: yes, docs https://downdetector.com/enterprise/
- Key needed: not stated
- Price: not stated

## Data and license

- License: Ookla Terms of Use (https://www.ookla.com/terms); covers Content of Ookla services including Downdetector: personal, non-commercial use only; no scraping or dataset building
- Non-commercial only
- Credit: not stated
- Embedding unclear
- Quote (api_official): "downdetector.com Monitor Service Outages Report a Service Problem Enterprise API" (https://www.ookla.com/downdetector-connect)
- Quote (commercial): "Users of the Services may use the Content only for their personal, noncommercial use." (https://www.ookla.com/terms)
- Quote (commercial_2): "Use the Services for any commercial purpose, to distribute any advertising or solicitation of funds or goods and services," (https://www.ookla.com/terms)
- Quote (scraping): "use any robot, spider, site search and/or retrieval application, or other device to crawl, scrape, database scrape, screen scrape, harvest, gather, extract, retrieve or index any portion of the Services" (https://www.ookla.com/terms)
- Quote (datasets): "use any text, code, image, audio, video, or other content from any portion of the Services (a) for data set creation, analysis, or manipulation" (https://www.ookla.com/terms)
- Quote (data_source): "Downdetector obtains certain information from social media content created by third parties, including users of social media platforms." (https://www.ookla.com/terms)
- Quote (ownership_news): "Accenture to Acquire Ookla to Strengthen Network Intelligence and Experience with Data and AI For Enterprises" (https://www.ookla.com/downdetector-connect)

## Rules for an agent

- Closed source; no npm/PyPI package or self-hosted version. The only programmatic access is Ookla's sales-led Enterprise API; the public site blocks bots and Ookla's terms forbid scraping and commercial reuse, so for your own app poll the vendors' official status pages instead.
- Do not scrape Downdetector pages or build datasets from them
- Personal, non-commercial use only unless you license the Enterprise API from Ookla

Human page: https://agentgid.com/resources/downdetector/
Source: AgentGid (agentgid.com). Facts are quoted from the site's own pages; check the license page before you ship.