List and search animal welfare organizations using the Petfinder API v2 organizations endpoint

domain: api.petfinder.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Register a free Petfinder developer account and generate a client ID and client secret at petfinder.com/developers
  2. Request an OAuth2 access token from POST api.petfinder.com/v2/oauth2/token using the client_credentials grant
  3. Call GET api.petfinder.com/v2/organizations with the Bearer token, filtering by name, state, country, or location and distance
  4. Retrieve a single organization's full profile with GET api.petfinder.com/v2/organizations/{id}
  5. Paginate results using the page and limit query parameters, where limit defaults to 20 and has a maximum of 100

Known gotchas

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