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Tools & API documentation.

Use the available public scan, inspect an illustrative telemetry payload, and review an example request for programmatic scanning. API examples are documentation only until the endpoint and response contract are confirmed.

Programmatic Scanning

Scan from your own tools.

Example cURL and Python requests for integrating a scan into your workflow. The endpoint shown below has not been verified as a live public API.

Developer preview

Example request

Endpoint availability not verified

curl -X POST "https://api.africalatency.dev/v1/scan/public" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"target":"https://yourwebsite.com","region":"nairobi"}'import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.africalatency.dev/v1/scan/public",
    json={"target": "https://yourwebsite.com", "region": "lagos"},
)
print(response.json())

Illustrative request only. Confirm the route, authentication requirements, rate limits and response schema before production integration. Copying this example does not run a scan.

Integration checklist

Confirm endpoint availability and supported HTTP method.
Validate request fields and the response schema against the deployed API.
Handle timeouts, unavailable probes and non-success HTTP responses.
Do not interpret illustrative values as live measurements.

Available

Free Latency Scan

Request point-in-time HTTP measurements from available African probes.

Open Free Scan →

Available

Website Speed Check

Use the existing front-end performance check for a public website.

Open Website Speed Check →

Coming soon

CDN / edge coverage checker

Planned helper to organize questions about edge presence and coverage. Not available yet.

Coming soon

DNS / TTFB by country

Planned comparison tool. This card is not a live data source.

Coming soon

Hosting-region advisor

Planned decision-support guide. No automated recommendations are available yet.