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PlaceDog

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🐕 AnimalsHEALTHYchecked 8h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✗AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Returns health status JSON for the PlaceDog image service.

93HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 93 · healthy
Uptime history
97.1%90 days
95.0%30 days
405P50 · ms
1089P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 68 ms, slowest 889 ms, most recent 82 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://place.dog/health

{
  "metrics": {
    "cpu_usage_percent": 7.7759199142456055,
    "memory_usage_percent": 53.08916091918945,
    "total_memory_kb": 10799484928,
    "used_memory_kb": 5733355520
  },
  "status": "healthy",
  "timestamp": "2026-07-05T18:30:07.329731763+00:00"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://place.dog/health"
const res = await fetch("https://place.dog/health");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://place.dog/health")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 3HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /health405 mschecked 8h ago
GET/healthPROBED

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GET/ping

Lightweight ping endpoint.

GET/status

Service status metadata.

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.

PlaceDog: common questions

Is PlaceDog free to use?

Yes — PlaceDog is a free animals API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does PlaceDog need an API key?

No — PlaceDog needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call PlaceDog from the browser?

Not directly — PlaceDog doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is PlaceDog up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, PlaceDog is healthy with 97.1% uptime over 90 days and a 405 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.