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updatedAt: 2025-12-17T15:17:48.000Z
agentTools:
  projectIndex: https://developers.privacy.com/llms.txt
---

# API status check

# OpenAPI definition

```json
{
  "openapi": "3.0.0",
  "info": {
    "title": "Privacy Developer API",
    "description": "The Privacy Developer API is designed to provide a predictable programmatic interface for accessing your Privacy account through an API and transaction webhooks.\nNote that your API key is a secret and should be treated as such. Don't share it with anyone, including us. We will never ask you for it.\n",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "termsOfService": "https://privacy.com/legal#terms",
    "contact": {
      "email": "support@privacy.com"
    }
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://api.privacy.com/v1",
      "description": "Privacy production API server"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://sandbox.privacy.com/v1",
      "description": "Sandbox environment that provides all the functionality of production"
    }
  ],
  "paths": {
    "/status": {
      "get": {
        "tags": [
          "Status"
        ],
        "summary": "API status check",
        "security": [
          {}
        ],
        "responses": {
          "200": {
            "description": "Endpoint for users to check whether they can reach the api.",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "properties": {
                    "message": {
                      "type": "string"
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "components": {
    "securitySchemes": {
      "BearerAuth": {
        "type": "apiKey",
        "in": "header",
        "description": "Prefix your API key with `api-key`.",
        "name": "Authorization"
      }
    }
  },
  "security": [
    {
      "BearerAuth": []
    }
  ],
  "x-readme": {
    "explorer-enabled": true,
    "proxy-enabled": true
  }
}
```