http.cat VS public-apis

Cats for other HTTP status codes can be found (or not found :-)) one level up

https://http.cat

Whenever we request data or services from a server, it can respond with status codes represented by numbers. You've probably heard of "404" which means "not found", but there are others like "201 - Created" and "500 - Internal Server Error." During one of my mentoring sessions, I was given a website that showcased all these status codes with kitten memes and a brief description. It was fantastic and helped me grasp each one of those statuses better.

import { Module, OnModuleInit } from '@nestjs/common' import { HttpModule, HttpService } from '@nestjs/axios' import { CatApi } from './cat-api.service' @Module({ imports: [ HttpModule.register({ // line A timeout: 1_000, maxRedirects: 2, baseURL: 'https://http.cat', }), ], providers: [ { provide: CatApi, useExisting: HttpService, // line B } ], exports: [CatApi], // line C }) export class CatApiModule implements OnModuleInit { constructor(private readonly httpService: HttpService) {} onModuleInit() { this.httpService.axiosRef.defaults.headers.common['Accept'] = 'application/json' } }

For inspirations on what type of agents I should build, I turned to the Public APIs GitHub repository which has a curated lists of free APIs. I narrowed my search for an API that does not require sign-up or an API key and returns useful information. I ultimately decided to use the Free Currency Exchange Rates API, which seemed promising upon some basic testing.

✅ public-apis/public-apis : https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Public-Apis Github Repo — A list of free public APIs.

Interesting thread at https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/issues/3104

Use curl to access a free public API and get a random joke, cat fact, or whatever.

I remember the forking of https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis and the long git issue discussions. The company owning the repository stopped maintaining it but didn't give up control either. Over the years you've put in a lot of work in publicapis.dev and that is much appreciated.

Also, that isn't really a list of "contributors", but of "organisations with the most stars". Those are different things.

For example "public-apis"[1] didn't "contribute" anything as that's not a person, and looking at GitHub[2] there are a bunch of substantial contributors (the person who created the organisation/repo only has 12 commits by the way);

[1]: https://opensource-heroes.com/o/public-apis

[2]: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/graphs/contributo...