DogFacts-API

DogFacts-API is an API that gives you facts about dogs that you can use in your project! Maintained by @SwiftyProgrammer on GitHub + pycharm! Open-Source contributions welcome!

What you need

You need:

1. Python
2. urllib.request
3. json

Usage

Route	What it does
/	Gets dog facts
/reasons	Get reasons to get a dog
/fun/coinflip	Gets a random heads or tails
/fun/diceroll	Get a dice roll result
/dog_zen	Parker the dog gives you wisdom
/emoji	Gets random dog emoji TO SEARCH, LOOK AT ROUTE /search_emoji
/search_emoji/?emoji=<EMOJI_NAME>	Searches for specific emoji. Emoji names = Dog, DogFace, and PoodleDog. Will return 404 error if invalid input received!

For route /:

import urllib.request, json

# Get data from the api route "/"
def get_fact():
    url = "https://api-dogfacts.herokuapp.com/"
    request = urllib.request.Request(url)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
    data = response.read().decode()
    return data

For route /reasons:

import urllib.request, json

# Get data from the api route "/reasons"
def get_reason():
    url = "https://api-dogfacts.herokuapp.com/reasons"
    request = urllib.request.Request(url)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
    data = response.read().decode()
    return data

For route /fun/coinflip:

import urllib.request, json

# Get data from the api route "/fun/coinflip"
def get_flip():
    url = "https://api-dogfacts.herokuapp.com/fun/coinflip"
    request = urllib.request.Request(url)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
    data = response.read().decode()
    return data

For route /fun/diceroll:

import urllib.request, json

# Get data from the api route "/fun/rolldice"
def get_dice():
    url = "https://api-dogfacts.herokuapp.com/fun/rolldice"
    request = urllib.request.Request(url)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
    data = response.read().decode()
    return data

For route /dog_zen:

import urllib.request, json

# Get data from the api route "/dog_zen"
def get_quote():
    url = "https://api-dogfacts.herokuapp.com/dog_zen"
    request = urllib.request.Request(url)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
    data = response.read().decode()
    return data

For Route /emoji:

import urllib.request, json

# Get data from the api route "/emoji"
def get_emoji():
    url = "https://api-dogfacts.herokuapp.com/emoji"
    request = urllib.request.Request(url)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
    data = response.read().decode()
    return data

For Route /search_emoji/:

import urllib.request, json

# Get data from the api route "/search_emoji"
def get_emoji(EMOJI_NAME):
    url = "https://api-dogfacts.herokuapp.com/search_emoji/?emoji=" + EMOJI_NAME
    request = urllib.request.Request(url)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
    data = response.read().decode()
    return data

New features going to be added soon!

Help

If you are facing any difficulties with this api, please feel free to open an issue on GitHub!

Inspiration

Inspired by meowfacts project made by wh-iterabb-it / meowfacts Link: https://github.com/wh-iterabb-it/meowfacts

Licence

Released under MIT by @SwiftyProgrammer690.