CALENDAR

Is It the Weekend API

GET/is-weekend

Check whether it is Saturday or Sunday in UTC.

No signup or API key required.

Parameters

No endpoint-specific parameters. Use format to choose the response representation.

formatenumoptional · query
Response format. Defaults to json.
jsontext

No request body. Unknown or repeated query parameters return HTTP 400.

Returns 200 OK

A JSON object with the following fields.

yesboolean
True on Saturday or Sunday in UTC.

Plain text

With format=text: Only the yes value, without the JSON wrapper.

Errors

Validation and service errors always return JSON, including when format=text.

errorstring
A machine-readable error code, such as invalid_parameter or rate_limited.
messagestring
A description of the problem.

400 Invalid parameters.

414 Query string exceeds 2048 characters.

429 Rate limit reached. Wait the seconds in Retry-After before retrying.

Usage notes

True on Saturday and Sunday in UTC.

Switch a demo’s weekday message to a weekend greeting. This uses the UTC calendar and does not accept a local time zone or holiday calendar.

Responses are not cached. Browser requests are supported through open CORS.

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