RescueGroups

RescueGroups — keyless JSON API

🐕 AnimalsHEALTHYchecked 39 min ago
AUTH NONECORS AGENT HTTPS COMMERCIAL ?

RescueGroups. Adoption

89HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 89 · healthy
Uptime history
97.1%90 days
98.3%30 days
700P50 · ms
2516P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 135 ms, slowest 1696 ms, most recent 296 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://userguide.rescuegroups.org/status

{
  "state": "RUNNING"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://userguide.rescuegroups.org/status"
const res = await fetch("https://userguide.rescuegroups.org/status");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://userguide.rescuegroups.org/status")
print(res.json())

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

Endpoints · 3HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /status700 mschecked 39 min ago
GET/statusPROBED

RescueGroups — keyless JSON API

GET/health

Health check — confirms the service is up.

GET/ping

Lightweight ping endpoint.

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.

RescueGroups: common questions

Is RescueGroups free to use?

Yes — RescueGroups 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 RescueGroups need an API key?

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call RescueGroups from the browser?

Not directly — RescueGroups 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 RescueGroups up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, RescueGroups is healthy with 97.1% uptime over 90 days and a 700 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.