PLACEHOLD(1) — placehold.cloud

Name

uuid — generate RFC 4122 UUIDs, version 4 (random) or 7 (time-ordered)

Synopsis

GET https://placehold.cloud/uuid [?count=n] [&version=4|7] [&uppercase=true] [&nodashes=true]

Options

count: Number of UUIDs to generate, 1–100. Default 1.
version: 4 (random) or 7 (time-ordered). Default 4.
uppercase: Return uppercase hex. Default false.
nodashes: Strip the dashes. Default false.

Examples

One UUID:

$ curl https://placehold.cloud/uuid

Five at once:

$ curl "https://placehold.cloud/uuid?count=5"

Three uppercase v7 UUIDs:

$ curl "https://placehold.cloud/uuid?count=3&version=7&uppercase=true"

Output

{
  "count": 3,
  "version": 4,
  "uuids": [
    "f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479",
    "7c9e6679-7425-40de-944b-e07fc1f90ae7",
    "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"
  ]
}

Try it

count

version 4 7

uppercase nodashes

Limits

120 requests per minute per IP.