Dog CEO API

Info

• To add your own images submit a pull request to https://github.com/jigsawpieces/dog-api-images
• Rewritten in Symfony 4 recently. Check out the 'legacy' branch for the old version
• 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

Stats

Requirements

• php 7.3+
• a few php packages
• composer
• run './bin/phpunit' for unit tests

$ composer check-platform-reqs
Restricting packages listed in "symfony/symfony" to "4.3.*"
composer-plugin-api
ext-ctype
ext-iconv
ext-tokenizer
ext-xml
php

Setup

• Clone repo
• cd repo dir
• composer install
• symfony server:start

.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.