Rather than nine months, cats' pregnancies last about nine weeks.
Source: Animal Planet
Steakscorp CaaS is inspired by Tom Dionysus' FOAAS project, and provides a RESTful solution to the problem of finding cat-facts to send to your friends.
Perform all API calls against /api (i.e. http://caas.steakscorp.org/api/?). Results are returned as a JSON string. Requests are made using the HTTP GET method, and parameters can be chained together as normal in the request body.
| Parameter | Input | Example output | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| No parameters | N/A |
{ _id: 'cb40d5384945f2e07cfce3e0', text: 'Some cats enjoy luke-warm food.', source: 'Steakscorp Labs', url: 'https://steakscorp.org/?test_fact' } |
Returns a random cat-fact as a JSON document. |
intro |
yes, no (default no) |
{ _id: 'cb40d5384945f2e07cfce3e0', text: 'Hey! Did you know? Some cats enjoy luke-warm food.', source: 'Steakscorp Labs', url: 'https://steakscorp.org/?test_fact' } |
Prepends some introduction text in front of the cat-fact in the text field. |
newsub |
yes, no (default no) |
{ _id: 'cb40d5384945f2e07cfce3e0', text: 'You are now subscribed to Cat-Facts! Some cats enjoy luke-warm food.', source: 'Steakscorp Labs', url: 'https://steakscorp.org/?test_fact' } |
Prepends some new subscription text in front of the cat-fact in the text field. |
unsub |
yes, no (default no) |
{ _id: 'cb40d5384945f2e07cfce3e0', text: 'Some cats enjoy luke-warm food. Reply "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe from this list.', source: 'Steakscorp Labs', url: 'https://steakscorp.org/?test_fact' } |
Appends some unsubscribe option text behind the cat-fact in the text field. |
notrecog |
yes, no (default no) |
{ _id: 'cb40d5384945f2e07cfce3e0', text: 'Command not recognized. Some cats enjoy luke-warm food.', source: 'Steakscorp Labs', url: 'https://steakscorp.org/?test_fact' } |
Appends command not recognized text in front of the cat-fact in the text field. |
exclude |
comma-seperated source names (default include all sources) e.g. Steakscorp+Labs,Evilcorp |
{ _id: '83d6305cb818d7589024f750', text: 'Cats have over 100 sounds in their vocal repertoire.', source: 'Not-Steakscorp Labs', url: 'https://steakscorp.org/?notlabs&test_fact' } |
Excludes a cat-fact from a given data source or sources from being returned. |
include |
comma-seperated source names (default include all sources) e.g. Evilcorp,Not-Steakscorp+Labs |
{ _id: '1414cda7ccb7b6099e36a065', text: 'Cats cannot taste sweet things.', source: 'Evilcorp', url: 'https://steakscorp.org/?evilcorp&test_fact' } |
Includes a cat-fact from a given data source or sources from being returned, and excludes all other sources. |
id |
id of a cat-fact (default random) e.g. cb40d5384945f2e07cfce3e0 |
{ _id: 'cb40d5384945f2e07cfce3e0', text: 'Some cats enjoy luke-warm food.', source: 'Steakscorp Labs', url: 'https://steakscorp.org/?test_fact' } |
Returns a specific cat-fact by id. |
The source for Steakscorp CaaS is hosted on GitHub here. This project is inspired by Tom Dionysus' FOAAS project, the source of which is also hosted on GitHub here.
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