Dog CEO API

Info

• To add your own images submit a pull request to https://github.com/jigsawpieces/dog-api-images
• API requests are cached from lambda https://github.com/ElliottLandsborough/dog-ceo-api-golang

Examples

• Vanilla JS: https://codepen.io/elliottlan/pen/MNEWNx
• Jquery: https://codepen.io/elliottlan/pen/KOXKLG
• Flutter: https://github.com/LIVELUCKY/dogs
• Node.js: https://github.com/mrbrunelli/dog-time-decorator

Stats

Dependencies

• php 8.1+
• Symfony 6
• modules
• composer
• run './bin/phpunit' for unit tests (composer dump-env test)

$ composer check-platform-reqs
Checking platform requirements for packages in the vendor dir
composer-plugin-api  2.3.0     success                                       
composer-runtime-api 2.2.2     success                                       
ext-ctype            8.1.12    success                                       
ext-dom              20031129  success                                       
ext-filter           8.1.12    success                                       
ext-iconv            8.1.12    success                                       
ext-json             8.1.12    success                                       
ext-libxml           8.1.12    success                                       
ext-mbstring         *         success provided by symfony/polyfill-mbstring 
ext-phar             8.1.12    success                                       
ext-tokenizer        8.1.12    success                                       
ext-xml              8.1.12    success                                       
ext-xmlwriter        8.1.12    success                                       
ext-yaml             2.2.2     success                                       
php                  8.1.12    success

Setup

• Clone repo
• composer install
• cd public
• php -S 127.0.0.1:6969

.env.local

DOG_CEO_CACHE_KEY="something-really-secure-lol"
DOG_CEO_LAMBDA_URI=https://example.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/

Cache clear:

$ curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/cache-clear -H 'auth-key: something-really-secure-lol'

Endpoints

/breeds/list/all

List all breed names including sub breeds.

/breeds/list/all/random

Get random breed including any sub breeds.

/breeds/list/all/random/10

Get 10 random breeds including any sub breeds.

/breeds/list

List all master breed names.

/breeds/list/random

Get single random master breed.

/breeds/list/random/10

Get 10 random master breeds.

/breed/{breed}/list

List sub breeds.

/breed/{breed}/list/random

List random sub breed.

/breed/{breed}/list/random/10

List 10 random sub breeds.

/breed/{breed}

Get master breed info (data is incomplete, see content folder).

/breed/{breed}/{breed2}

Get sub breed info (data is incomplete, see content folder).

/breeds/image/random

Random image from any breed.

/breeds/image/random/3

Get 3 random images from any breed (max. 50)

/breed/{breed}/images

Get all breed images.

/breed/{breed}/images/random

Get random image from a breed (and all its sub-breeds).

/breed/{breed}/images/random/4

Get 4 random images from a breed (and all its sub-breeds).

/breed/{breed}/{breed2}/images

Get all images from a sub breed.

/breed/{breed}/{breed2}/images/random

Get random image from a sub breed.

/breed/{breed}/{breed2}/images/random/5

Get 5 random images from a sub breed.

Beta/Unfinished Endpoints

These endpoints might change in the future...

Alt tags (beta)

https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random/alt
https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random/1/alt
https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random/9/alt

https://dog.ceo/api/breed/hound/images/alt
https://dog.ceo/api/breed/hound/images/random/1/alt
https://dog.ceo/api/breed/hound/images/random/9/alt

https://dog.ceo/api/breed/hound/afghan/images/alt
https://dog.ceo/api/breed/hound/afghan/images/random/alt

XML Responses (beta, unfinished)

Add 'Content-Type' request header containing 'application/xml' to any endpoint.