Puppies

Puppies is a microservice for fetching puppy pictures for you to use as placeholder images in your app.

Rationale

I really like dogs. Dogs are great. And puppies are adorable. So when I was working on a large website for a client, I would wind up using random pictures of dogs from Google Images as placeholders. I always liked this more than static placeholder boxes since we could approximate color, so I made a simple microservice to further simplify this process.

Endpoints

/

Returns a JSON array of images, i.e.

[
  {"type":"image/jpeg",
   "width":480,
   "height":360,
   "size":19463,
   "url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mRf3-JkwqfU/hqdefault.jpg",
   "thumbnail": {"url":"https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQihVZOhZZ73-ePag8fgdTAV-8Gf-9xchf2e8BrgfBCGySVDfxe_rkFkyZX",
                 "width":129,
                 "height":97
                },
   "description":"Funny Puppies And Cute Puppy Videos Compilation 2016 [BEST OF ...",
   "parentPage":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRf3-JkwqfU"
  },
...]

Example Usage

See the Codesandbox for usage