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Create your account
Open dis.dog/register, enter your email and confirm it with the 6-digit code we send you. There is no password: at the end, DisDog shows your access key. It looks like this:The API comes with the Hound ($10 / 30 days, 500 searches a day) and **Alpha** ($30 / 30 days, unlimited) plans: upgrade here. A Pup (free) key can already call
/v1/me to check that it works.2
Store it in an environment variable
Keep the key out of your code:
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Check that it works
GET /v1/me returns your plan and what is left of today’s quota. It never spends a search.4
Run a search
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Read the answer
kind says what DisDog recognised, account.createdAt is decoded from the ID, and modules lists every lookup module with its status and, when it found something, its data. Every field →Next
Limits & quotas
What a search costs, and how to handle
429.Errors
Every error code, and what to do about it.

