https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random is returning:

{
    "status": "success",
    "message": null
}

Expecting to return message that has link to a random photo.

Describe the bug.
if we navigate to dog-api/breeds-list in the dropdown the list of breeds should be sorted. but it is not.

Screenshot.

Fix
Sort the list of breeds when populating it.

When trying to fetch a random Image the server returns a 403 Forbidden error

Endpoints:

1. https://dog.ceo/api/breed/breed/{breed} - Get information of breed
   

2. https://dog.ceo/api/breed/breed/{breed}/{breed2} - Get information of sub-breed
   

Documentation of endpoints: https://github.com/ElliottLandsborough/dog-ceo-api

I wanted to open this as a proposal in case anyone was interested in implementing, may give it a go myself if I have time!

Basically I've been looking for a solid API that could give me back some back data on all possible dog breeds and combinations and each breed is an object with some information.

For example a response could look like:

[
  {
      breed: "Cairn Terrier",
      average_height: 9,
      average_weight: 13,
      bred_for: "Bolting of otter, foxes, other vermin",
      image: "https://d17fnq9dkz9hgj.cloudfront.net/breed-uploads/2018/08/cairn-terrier-detail.jpg?bust=1535565423&width=355"
    },
    { some other dog object }
]

Just an idea I thought would be useful for the API to have!

https://images.dog.ceo/breeds/hound-plott/plott-hound-wiki.txt

It would be cool if it was possible to ask for a random breed or a subset of the breeds list.

https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/random
https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/random/5

With the result being a random breed names or 5.

Would code it myself but i dont know php :P

Could we have an endpoint responding with an array of dog objects with their image src url on them, such as:

{
  "message": [
    { "breed": "affenpinscher", "src": "https://..." },
    { "breed": "pug", "src": "https://..." },
    { "breed": "french bulldog", "src": "https://..." },
    { "breed": "pug", "src": "https://..." }
  ],
  "status": "success"
}

For mocking purposes, 5 or 10 items at a time would be enough for mocking purposes (as I understand, hosting data consumption could be of concern here).

https://dog.ceo/api/breed/Golden%20Retriever/images/random
https://dog.ceo/api/breed/Golden Retriever/images/random

Currently, when you fetch the route "https://dog.ceo/api/breed/hound/images", you receive a list of every single image based on the specific breed, which is great. But would it be possible to get a single random image based on the breed? Something like "https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/hound/random"

Hey thanks for making this! I'm using it to learn React and have got a little React app going at taylornodell.com/dogsdogsdogs. However, I'm getting a 404 for the following image. Not a high priority fix, but thought you might want to know.

https://images.dog.ceo/breeds/coton-detulear/IMAG1063.jpeg

Hey guys,

First of all, just wanna say that I love this API. I had a lot of fun building small projects using it.

I think we should add this endpoint "/breed/{breed}/images/random/{number}". To me, it seems like a common functionality. Hope somebody can make this happen. Thanks!!

I love this project, its so amazing. Would you mind if I helped create an OpenAPI definition for your endpoints?

Randomly get status 503 -- Service unavailable

If you ping an invalid URL, you don't get a 404, you get a CORS error.

fetch('https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/list/x')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data =>console.log(data));;

If i use /api/breed/border/images/random a.e i'm just getting "Breed not found". What can i do?

It's better if there is an endpoint where if we request we can get the image URL only. I know there is an endpoint for that but it returns a JSON response. But it would be better a simple text response with just the URL of the image returned.

--
Naveen

I tried to make a call to the dalmatian pictures and it says it's there on your website, but I cannot retrieve it.

Describe the feature
when selecting breeds from dropdown Breeds List it would be better if there is an auto complete or search bar there so that it can be more user interactive.

Screenshot

Fix
Add an auto completer/searchable in the dropdown.

When fetching from the api with JS, the following message is displayed inside chrome console:

A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at http://dog.ceo/ was set without the SameSite attribute. A future release of Chrome will only deliver cookies with cross-site requests if they are set with SameSite=None and Secure. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592 and https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032.

I could not find any way to resolve this from javascript. Here is a simple example code where this issue occurs.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content"></div>
<script>
async function getResults(dogbreed) {
  const response = await fetch(`https://dog.ceo/api/breed/${dogbreed}/images`);
  const data = await response.json();
  const image = document.createElement('img');
  image.src = data.message[Math.floor(Math.random() * data.message.length)];
  document.querySelector('#content').appendChild(image);
}
getResults('papillon');
</script>
</body>
</html>

Is this something that can be resolved from the backend?

Error 503 Backend fetch failed
Backend fetch failed

Sometimes, even though the API returns status === "success", the URL is inaccessible for some reason. A good solution would be a script that periodically checks the entire database and filters out inaccessible images.

Currently, all endpoints responds a json. Is there a way to get the image directly?

e.g. https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random.jpg

So that we can embed in markdown:

![](https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random.jpg)

I got server error when fetching from "https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random".

{
"status": "error",
"message": "Server error: GET https:\/\/api.dog.ceo\/breeds\/list\/all resulted in a 502 Bad Gateway response:\n{"message": "Internal server error"}\n with code: 502",
"code": 500
}

Is this a temporary break down?

If we call https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/list/all in response "message" key has object type, not array. Do you propose to handle each value separately?