Creepypasta are essentially internet horror stories, passed around on forums and other sites to disturb and frighten readers. The name “creepypasta” originally comes from the word “copypasta”, an internet slang term for a block of text that gets copied and pasted over and over again from website to website. Creepypastas are sometimes supplemented with pictures, audio and/or video footage related to the story, typically with gory, distorted, or otherwise shocking content.
"https://openapi-idk8.onrender.com"GET /creepypasta: Search for Creepypasta stories and retrieve the first result.Searches for Creepypasta stories and retrieves detailed information.
q (string): The search query. This parameter is required.GET "https://openapi-idk8.onrender.com/creepypasta?q=Russian Sleep Experiment"{
"title": "The Russian Sleep Experiment",
"url": "https://www.creepypasta.com/the-russian-sleep-experiment/",
"imageUrl": "https://www.creepypasta.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/the-russian-sleep-experiment-website.jpg",
"datePublished": "",
"readingTime": "12",
"excerpt": "Widely regarded as one of the most popular and widest spread Creepypastas ever written, The Russian Sleep experiment is notorious as much for the gruesome nature of its content as for its plausibility. To this day, a large portion of the articles written about the story are attempts to investigate its validity or to debunk it as a hoax, something that speaks not only to the story’s effectiveness but also to the deeper societal anxieties to which the story appeals. \n\nFor those who don’t know, The Russian Sleep Experiment is a supposedly factual account of experimentation acted out on subjects by the Soviet government and military in the wake of world war 2. The experiment, ostensibly meant to explore the effects of sleep deprivation on the human body was also used to test a new gas that could keep people awake for days at a time. The ‘report’ documents the degeneration of those experimented upon, individuals commonly referred to within the Creepypasta community as ‘The Test Subjects’. The horrifying results of these experiments and the crazed almost subhuman or demonic creatures it produces are often illustrated alongside the story with one image in particular being representative of the entire myth.\n\nRussian researchers in the late 1940s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant..."
}If there is an error or the q parameter is missing, the API responds with an appropriate error message and status code.
The API fetches Creepypasta stories from creepypasta.com.