Status

Report on the state of the service and database. Useful for checking if the service is up and running. The JSON output also reports when the database was last updated.

Endpoint

The status API has the following format:

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/status

Deprecation warning

The API can also be used with the URL https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/status.php. This is now deprecated and will be removed in future versions.

Parameters

The status endpoint takes a single optional parameter:

Parameter	Value	Default
format	one of: text, json	'text'

Selects the output format. See below.

Output

Text format

When everything is okay, a status code 200 is returned and a simple message: OK

On error it will return HTTP status code 500 and print a detailed error message, e.g. ERROR: Database connection failed.

JSON format

Always returns a HTTP code 200, when the status call could be executed.

On success a JSON dictionary with the following structure is returned:

  {
      "status": 0,
      "message": "OK",
      "data_updated": "2020-05-04T14:47:00+00:00",
      "software_version": "3.6.0-0",
      "database_version": "3.6.0-0"
  }

The software_version field contains the version of Nominatim used to serve the API. The database_version field contains the version of the data format in the database.

On error will return a shorter JSON dictionary with the error message and status only, e.g.

   {
       "status": 700,
       "message": "Database connection failed"
   }