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HTTP Dog vs MeowFacts

HTTP Dog

http.dog serves a themed dog photo for most standard HTTP status codes (e.g. GET /200, /404, /451), following the same status-code-as-image idea as http.cat. A .json variant returns direct links to the same image in JPEG, WebP, AVIF, and JXL instead of the image itself. It's a static Cloudflare-fronted site with no server-side application logic, so there's no API key, authentication, or rate limit of any kind.

MeowFacts

meowfacts is a free, keyless REST API that returns one or more random cat facts as JSON, with count and id query parameters for multiple or specific facts. A lang parameter serves community-translated fact sets in around 15 languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Russian, and others, by browser-style ISO 639 code). It's an open-source (GPL) side project hosted on a free Heroku dyno and documented via SwaggerHub, with no signup, key, or pricing tier.

HTTP DogMeowFacts
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreefree
FormatsJSON, JPEG, WEBP, AVIFJSON
CORSnoyes
HTTPSYesYes

MeowFacts supports CORS, while HTTP Dog doesn't — pick MeowFacts for direct browser calls.

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