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A lightweight REST API that returns random facts and trivia about cats. Useful for learning API integration, testing HTTP client libraries in Python, and building practice ETL pipelines before connecting to more complex data sources.
A single `requests.get()` call retrieves random cat facts as JSON. Engineers often use this API in tutorials to demonstrate basic API integration, response parsing, and storing results in a simple SQLite database or CSV file.
Cat Facts API is a lightweight sandbox for AI experiments — perfect for testing RAG retrieval pipelines, prompt chaining, or MCP server setups without dealing with authentication or rate limits. Build a cat facts chatbot as your first LLM application with zero friction.
# pip install requests
import requests
resp = requests.get("https://catfact.ninja/facts", params={"limit": 5})
for fact in resp.json()["data"]:
print("-", fact["fact"])Official dataset source
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