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Dog CEO

20,000+ open-source dog photos by breed.

🐕 AnimalsHEALTHYchecked 2h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓

Dog CEO serves random dog images from the Stanford Dogs dataset, browsable by breed and sub-breed. Community-run and donation-backed. The single most wholesome endpoint in this directory, and our uptime data proves the dogs are dependable.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
▶ Run liveDocs ↗
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Uptime history
—%90 days
—%30 days
—P50 · ms
—P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random

{
  "message": "https://images.dog.ceo/breeds/shiba/shiba-16.jpg",
  "status": "success"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random"
const res = await fetch("https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 3HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /breeds/image/randomchecked 2h ago
GET/breeds/image/randomPROBED

Random dog photo URL from the full breed catalog.

GET/breeds/list/all

Every breed and sub-breed as a nested JSON map.

GET/breed/hound/images

All image URLs for a specific breed.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Dog CEO: common questions

Is Dog CEO free to use?

Yes — Dog CEO is a free animals API. Free tier: Unlimited. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does Dog CEO need an API key?

No — Dog CEO needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (None published).

Can I call Dog CEO from the browser?

Yes — Dog CEO returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Dog CEO up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Dog CEO is healthy. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.