# 🐾 catApi > **catApi** is a minimal, self-hostable API endpoint for serving pictures of, you guessed it, cats! > but it could be used to serve anything, really ## Usage There are two ways to "use" **catApi** - you can either serve it, blessing the world with pictures of your cat or be served. Below is the API documentation for visiting an existing instance of catApi. ### API Documentation **catApi** exposes several endpoints. #### ID `/api/id` will return the image with the associated ID. For example **`http://localhost:3000/api/id?id=3`** will return the image with the ID of "3". #### List `/api/list` will return eturn a JSON object containing data about the images within the /images directory For example, **`http://localhost:3000/api/random`** will return a JSON object that might be as follows > `[{"id":"0","url":"/api/id?id=0"},{"id":"1","url":"/api/id?id=1"},{"id":"2","url":"/api/id?id=2"}]` #### Random `/api/random` will return a random image from the list of available images ### Self-hosting TODO ## License > **catApi** is licensed under the [MIT](https://github.com/NotAShelf/catApi/blob/v2/LICENSE) license.