bersling / animals-microservice

A microservice for finding & displaying animal svgs.

Find & Fetch Animal SVGs

Simply find & use some animal svgs.

The svgs are not included in this repository due to copyright issues.

Rather you can use this repo if you want to have a look how you could build such an API using nodeJS + express in under 50 lines of code!

Simply check out the server.js file.

The api works as follows.

Finding an animal:

/find?q=tiger

will return something like:

{
  "path": "/home/ubuntu/animals/animals/141684-animal-collection/svg/tiger.svg",
  "urlEncodedPath": "%2Fhome%2Fubuntu%2Fanimals%2Fanimals%2F141684-animal-collection%2Fsvg%2Ftiger.svg"
}

then get the svg:

/animals?path=%2Fhome%2Fubuntu%2Fanimals%2Fanimals%2F141684-animal-collection%2Fsvg%2Ftiger.svg

That's it!

Run locally with docker

docker build -t animals . && docker run -p 57253:57253 animals