aboyett / error-cats

Flask/Sanic extensio to return cats (or dogs) instad of HTTP errors.

Flask/Sanic error cats (and dogs)

Extension that allows you to return error cats instead of regular error pages.

Extension uses:

• https://http.cat/
• https://httpstatusdogs.com/

Usage

Flask

from error_cats import FlaskErrorCats
from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)
FlaskErrorCats(app, status_codes=set(range(0, 600)), animal='dog')


@app.route('/<int:status_code>')
def status_code_view(status_code):
    return '', status_code


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

Sanic

from error_cats import SanicErrorCats
from sanic import Sanic
from sanic.response import json

app = Sanic()
SanicErrorCats(app, status_codes=set(range(0, 600)))


@app.route('/<status_code:int>')
async def status_code_view(request, status_code):
    return json('', status=status_code)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

Available parameters

param	default	value
app	None (can be configured later)	Web application (Flask or Sanic)
animal	cat	Available values: cat, dog
status_codes	400...599	Container with status codes that should be translated into cats
simple_html_template	...	Simple python format string (html). Should contain {status_cde} (int) and {image} (url)