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Version 5 of the RescueGroups.org API is currently under development.  On 2/15/18, we released an alpha developer preview of RescueGroups.org API v5. This is a very early release involving only the Animals endpoint.

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This API will change in the coming months.  We would greatly appreciate your feedback and ideas for improvement.  However, perform development at your own risk.  We would expect changes to be relatively minor, but there's no guarantee.

Full API documentation

Please visit the full API documentation (for the Production environment): https://api.rescuegroups.org/v5/public/docs

Please visit the full API documentation (for the Test environment): https://test1-api.rescuegroups.org/v5/public/docs

Warning

The Test environment is a copy of production data. However, this copy may be several days or weeks old and should not be considered valid. You are not permitted to use data you retrieve from the Test servers in any production (publicly accessible) service or website.


Changes and improvements of note

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  • Geolocation now accepts postalcode, coordinates, or lat and lon in order to calculate distance for animals and organizations. Refer to the Endpoint reference for more information about how to perform a distance query for animals or organizations.

Swagger definition available soon

Coming soon!  You can download an early draft of our Swagger definition for the public API endpoints.

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We don't have any ETA for production release yet.   We are hoping that it will be in production by early-2020Please note, we do have a production environment URL that should be used if you choose to use this API to display data on publicly available websites.

Question: Will the current APIs (v2 and the REST API) be deprecated?

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