Retrieve adoptable pet listings via RescueGroups.org's legacy HTTP/JSON Adoptable Pet Data API

domain: rescuegroups.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Request an API key through RescueGroups.org's adoptable pet data API signup process
  2. Send authenticated POST requests with JSON bodies to the RescueGroups HTTP/JSON API endpoint using the issued key
  3. Query for adoptable animals by species, breed, location, or organization as documented in the RescueGroups user guide
  4. Parse the JSON response for animal and organization records
  5. Cache results locally, since RescueGroups advertises no hard limit on total requests for this API

Known gotchas

Related routes

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