Animals APIs
Discover APIs for animal pictures, facts, pet adoption services, and wildlife information.Available APIs
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdoptAPet | Resource to help get pets adopted | apiKey | Yes | Yes |
| Axolotl | Collection of axolotl pictures and facts | No | Yes | No |
| Cat Facts | Daily cat facts | No | Yes | No |
| Cataas | Cat as a service (cats pictures and gifs) | No | Yes | No |
| Cats | Pictures of cats from Tumblr | apiKey | Yes | No |
| Dog Facts | Random dog facts | No | Yes | Yes |
| Dog Facts | Random facts of Dogs | No | Yes | Yes |
| Dogs | Based on the Stanford Dogs Dataset | No | Yes | Yes |
| eBird | Retrieve recent or notable birding observations within a region | apiKey | Yes | No |
| FishWatch | Information and pictures about individual fish species | No | Yes | Yes |
| HTTP Cat | Cat for every HTTP Status | No | Yes | Yes |
| HTTP Dog | Dogs for every HTTP response status code | No | Yes | Yes |
| IUCN | IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | apiKey | No | No |
| MeowFacts | Get random cat facts | No | Yes | No |
| Movebank | Movement and Migration data of animals | No | Yes | Yes |
| Petfinder | Petfinder is dedicated to helping pets find homes, another resource to get pets adopted | apiKey | Yes | Yes |
| PlaceBear | Placeholder bear pictures | No | Yes | Yes |
| PlaceDog | Placeholder Dog pictures | No | Yes | Yes |
| PlaceKitten | Placeholder Kitten pictures | No | Yes | Yes |
| RandomDog | Random pictures of dogs | No | Yes | Yes |
| RandomDuck | Random pictures of ducks | No | Yes | No |
| RandomFox | Random pictures of foxes | No | Yes | No |
| RescueGroups | Adoption | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Shibe.Online | Random pictures of Shiba Inu, cats or birds | No | Yes | Yes |
| The Dog | A public service all about Dogs, free to use when making your fancy new App, Website or Service | apiKey | Yes | No |
| xeno-canto | Bird recordings | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Zoo Animals | Facts and pictures of zoo animals | No | Yes | Yes |
Use Cases
- Build pet adoption platforms
- Create animal fact applications
- Develop wildlife tracking tools
- Generate placeholder images for development
- Build educational apps about animals
- Create HTTP status code visualizers with animals