Search and display adoptable pet listings via the Petfinder API v2

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

  1. Register for a Petfinder API key and secret at petfinder.com/developers.
  2. POST a client_credentials grant to https://api.petfinder.com/v2/oauth2/token to get a bearer token (expires in 3600 seconds).
  3. GET https://api.petfinder.com/v2/animals with query params like type, breed, location, and distance to search listings.
  4. Use the returned pagination links to page through results (max limit 100 per page).
  5. Cache animal type/breed reference data from /v2/types to power search filters.

Known gotchas

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