Uuid Generator And Web Service

Your UUID/GUID

Your UUID/GUID:
a89b04a1-5d62-49c2-8d64-eaa9ed37b323

Create an arbitrary number of uuids:

API

To programmatically recieve a UUID, send a request to http://uuid.xyzio.com/json.

The response will contain a json object formatted like this:
{"uuid": "5326d3df-2aab-481c-ba8f-c4da69df2603"}

Example: Using the API with Python

import requests

response = requests.get('http://uuid.xyzio.com/json')
response.close()
if response.status_code == 200:
    jsonObject = response.json()
    print jsonObject

Output:
{u'uuid': u'ba2bf0c7-fded-4e7b-8a79-ea70783c9ee1'}

What is a UUID?

UUID stands for Universally Unique IDentifier. It is a unique 128-bit number that is extermely unlikely to be similar to another UUID.

What is a GUID?

GUID stands for Globally Unique IDentifier. It is Microsoft's implementation of the UUID standard.

What is the difference between a GUID and UUID?

There is no difference between a GUID and a UUID. They are both 16-byte highly unique values that can be used interchangeably.

Other UUID Generators on The Web

https://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen

About this Generator

The API and website is written in Python using the django framework. The UUID is generated using Python's UUID module and returned using the Django JsonResponse module.

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