🐾 My Zootopia API

Welcome to the My Zootopia API project — a Python-based tool to fetch and store animal data for use in a simple web interface.

🚀 Features

• Fetches detailed animal information from an external API.
• Saves data to a local animal_data.json as a backup in case the API is unavailable.
• Generates HTML pages displaying animal data using a Jinja2 template.
• Uses environment variables for secure API key management.
• Modular, easy-to-understand code structure.

🐍 Tech Stack

• Python 3.11+
• requests – for API access
• Jinja2 – for HTML templating
• .env support via os.environ

📁 Project Structure

My-Zootopia-API/
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├── animals_web_generator.py     # Main script to generate HTML from data
├── data_fetcher.py              # Handles data fetching and saving
├── storage/
│   └── animal_data.json         # Local JSON backup of animal records
├── html/
│   ├── animals_template.html    # HTML template with a placeholder
│   └── animals.html             # Output HTML file
├── .env                         # Your API key goes here
├── requirements.txt             # Python dependencies
└── README.md                    # This file

🔐 Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/janis-loens/My-Zootopia.git
   cd My-Zootopia-API

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Add your API key to a .env file:

   API_KEY=your_api_key_here
   

4. Run the program:

   python animals_web_generator.py

🧪 Testing

No automated tests yet — manual testing via console output and generated HTML is used.

📄 License

MIT License. Free to use and modify.

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✨ Future Ideas

• Add a simple Flask frontend.
• Add unit tests with pytest.
• Add search/filter features to the HTML.

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If this project helped you, leave a ⭐ on GitHub or fork it to build your own version!