🦕 tyrannosaurus.rest 🦖

The Dinosaur Rest API, because why the hell not?

The word 'dinosaur' originates from the Greek words deinos meaning 'terrible' and sauros meaning 'lizard'. Hence the word 'dinosaur' actually means 'terrible lizard'. That said, there are a lot of misconceptions today regarding the actual creatures that the general public mislabel as 'dinosaur' (e.g. ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, pterosaurs etc. are not actually 'dinosaurs' at all.)

I hope by categorizing information in this API through endpoints, a clearer picture can be painted regarding their mislabeling.

Usage & Deploying

Assuming you've got npm and Node installed on your machine:

1. git clone https://github.com/rakhadjo/tyrannosaurus.rest.git
2. cd tyrannosaurus.rest
3. npm install
4. npm start

By default I set the app to run on localhost port 1212

Endpoints

tyrannosaurus.rest only accepts GET requests. No authentication has been planned yet for this project. Simply perform an HTTP GET request on the following endpoints to receive your content requests. Data will be returned in the json format. More on this later.

Dinosaur Information

There are two ways of getting the dinosaur information.

Unordered, uncategorized

The first way is to simply substitute the dinosaur name: GET (host)/dinosaur/{dino-name}

Currently supported endpoints to substitute {dino-name} can be found in static_content/endpoints.js

Categorized by Era

...needs work...

Return Type

In most cases, the return type will be as follows:

{ 
   "name": "",
   "is_dino": "",
   "diet": "",
   "era": "",
   "found": "",
   "avg_weight_kg": "",
   "avg_length_m": "",
   "movement": ""
}

Data is retrieved from dinosaurs.js supposedly located in the root directory.

Developer

/about

Some meta-information of the API, developer, etc.

/endpoints

Returns the endpoints, and their descriptions.

Random

/movies

List of Movies containing the general public understanding of what dinosaurs are 😒

/random

Returns some random dinosaur entry

/dinobots

Transformers Reference, they're essentially Autobots that can transform to prehistoric creatures.

/sounds/{identifier}

Me trying my best to represent each of their sounds with what I can do with my keyboard. Will return 404 if empty