Requesty status badge
Free for anyone. The badge updates every minute and links to the live Requesty status page.
Every snippet links to https://damnisitdown.com/status/requesty. Options and caching: badge docs.
JSON API
No key needed: GET https://damnisitdown.com/api/v1/status/requesty. Cached for 30 seconds; anonymous use is limited to 30 requests a minute per IP. See API docs.