Animals

24 APIs

Animal APIs range from random pet photos and facts to biodiversity and bird observation databases. The light ones need no key and are a good way to learn how to call an API, while scientific sources such as eBird or IUCN require a key and have usage terms for research data.

RandomDog, RandomFox and Shibe.Online return random animal images, and HTTP Cat maps HTTP status codes to cat pictures. Cat Facts and Dog Facts return short facts, The Dog needs a key for breed data, and xeno-canto shares bird sound recordings.

Axolotl

Collection of axolotl pictures and facts

No key HTTPSNo CORS
Breed Health Score

Dog breed health scores, median lifespans and conditions

No key HTTPSNo CORS
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Cat Facts

Daily cat facts

No key HTTPSNo CORS
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Cat Facts

Random cat facts

No key HTTPSCORS
Cats

Pictures of cats from Tumblr

API keyHTTPSNo CORS
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Dog Facts

Random dog facts

No key HTTPSCORS
Dog Facts

Random facts of Dogs

No key HTTPSCORS
Dogs

Based on the Stanford Dogs Dataset

No key HTTPSCORS
eBird

Retrieve recent or notable birding observations within a region

API keyHTTPSNo CORS
FishWatch

Information and pictures about individual fish species

No key HTTPSCORS
HTTP Cat

Cat for every HTTP Status

No key HTTPSCORS
HTTP Dog

Dogs for every HTTP response status code

No key HTTPSCORS
IUCN

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

API keyHTTPSNo CORS
MeowFacts

Get random cat facts

No key HTTPSNo CORS
Movebank

Movement and Migration data of animals

No key HTTPSCORS
PlaceBear

Placeholder bear pictures

No key HTTPSCORS
PlaceDog

Placeholder Dog pictures

No key HTTPSCORS
RandomDog

Random pictures of dogs

No key HTTPSCORS
RandomDuck

Random pictures of ducks

No key HTTPSNo CORS
RandomFox

Random pictures of foxes

No key HTTPSNo CORS
RescueGroups

Adoption

No key HTTPSCORS ?
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Shibe.Online

Random pictures of Shiba Inu, cats or birds

No key HTTPSCORS
The Dog

A public service all about Dogs, free to use when making your fancy new App, Website or Service

API keyHTTPSNo CORS
xeno-canto

Bird recordings

No key HTTPSCORS ?

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