canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/herokuapp.com/meowfacts # Herokuapp MeowFacts API Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for MeowFacts API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. MeowFacts is a free public API that returns random cat facts as JSON. It supports an optional language parameter for localised facts and an optional count parameter to retrieve several facts in a single call. The endpoint requires no authentication and is well suited to demos, onboarding examples, and lightweight content generation where a single deterministic response is needed. ## For AI agents Fetch one or more random cat facts as JSON, optionally localised by language, with no authentication required. ## Scope Does not return dog facts, animal images, or general trivia, and offers no SLA - use for fetching random cat fact strings only. ## Capabilities - Retrieve a random cat fact as a JSON response from GET / - Request multiple facts in a single call via the count query parameter - Localise facts using the lang query parameter where translations are available - Use the API anonymously without an API key, OAuth flow, or signed request ## Use cases ### Daily Cat Fact in Team Chat A small bot can call MeowFacts once a day and post the result into Slack, Discord, or Teams as a low-stakes morning message. The single endpoint returns clean JSON that drops into a chat post template, so the bot is one HTTP call and one formatter. This is a popular onboarding example for chat integrations. Example prompt: GET / and post the response.data[0] string into the chat channel as the daily message. ### Demo and Onboarding Examples MeowFacts is widely used as a teaching API for HTTP clients, OpenAPI generators, and integration tutorials because it has no auth, one endpoint, and a tiny response shape. Tutorials can show a working call in a few lines of code without sign-up friction. This makes it ideal for first-touch developer experience material. Example prompt: GET / from a fresh client and assert the response contains a non-empty data array. ### Bulk Fact Retrieval for Content Seeding When a content team needs a small bank of cat facts for a marketing site or quiz, the count parameter returns several facts in one call. The output can be written to a static JSON file and used as build-time content. This avoids loops over the endpoint and keeps the deployment self-contained. Example prompt: GET /?count=20 and write the response.data array to a static facts.json file. ### AI Agent Quick Demo Tool When demoing an AI agent's tool-use capabilities, MeowFacts is a perfect zero-friction tool - no auth, one endpoint, and an obvious output. Through Jentic the agent searches by intent, loads the schema, and executes, exercising the full search-load-execute path without a real-world dependency. This is helpful for live demos and integration smoke tests. Example prompt: Search Jentic for 'get a random cat fact', load the GET / schema, and execute with no parameters. ## Key endpoints | Method | Path | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | GET | `/` | Get one or more random cat facts | ## Key resources - **Facts** — Random cat facts, optionally localised and batched ## Why Jentic - **Setup:** The MeowFacts API needs no auth, so wiring it by hand still means handling the query parameters and writing your own retry logic around its single endpoint. Through Jentic you install once, import the MeowFacts API from the API Directory, and your agent calls it with consistent retry handling like any other operation. - **Permission scoping:** MeowFacts exposes one read-only GET operation that returns random cat facts, with count and lang passed as query parameters rather than a resource id, so limit the agent to that single fetch operation. There is nothing to write or delete, so the allowed set is exactly the read it needs. - **Credential handling:** MeowFacts is unauthenticated, so there is no credential to store, and your Jentic One instance forwards the call directly. No secret ever enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context. - **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get a random cat fact', and Jentic returns the MeowFacts GET operation with its query parameter schema so the agent picks count and lang without reading the docs. ## Related APIs - **Quotable API** — Free public API returning random quotes as JSON - **Agify API** — Free public API that predicts age from a name - **Airtable API** — Store and review fetched cat facts as records ## FAQ ### Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for MeowFacts API? MeowFacts is a community project that does not publish a formal OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call MeowFacts API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer. ### What authentication does the MeowFacts API use? MeowFacts is a free public API that requires no authentication - there is no API key, OAuth flow, or signed request. Calls are anonymous, so do not send any sensitive context in query parameters. ### Can I get more than one cat fact in a single call? Yes. GET / accepts an optional count query parameter to return multiple facts in one response. The response.data array contains as many strings as requested, up to a service-side maximum. ### What are the rate limits for the MeowFacts API? MeowFacts does not document a strict rate limit. As a free Heroku-hosted service it can be slow under bursty load and may sleep when idle. Cache the result for a few minutes when used at scale rather than calling it on every page view. ### How do I fetch a cat fact through Jentic? Search Jentic for 'get a random cat fact', load the GET / schema, and execute. Because the API has no auth, Jentic forwards the call directly with no credential injection. ### Is MeowFacts suitable for production use? It is best suited to demos, tutorials, and lightweight chat bots. For production-grade content or guaranteed uptime, host the facts statically or pick a paid content API - the public Heroku endpoint has no SLA. ### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the MeowFacts API? Yes. Jentic One runs on your own infrastructure, and you write the rules that decide which operations and credentials your agent may use. The MeowFacts API exposes a single read-only GET operation that returns random cat facts, with count and lang passed as query parameters, so you can allow just that one fetch and nothing else. There is nothing to write or delete, so the permitted set is exactly the read the agent needs.