HTTP Status Cats for Slack

Wanna quickly look up a definition of http status code on Slack? Once installed it in your Slack team, simply type /httpstatus slash command followed by a status code (e.g. 404). HTTP Status Cats bot responds you with a short description of each status code with the HTTP Status Cats picture. 🐱

Install it on Your Slack Team

Setting up HTTP Status Cats in Slack is simple. Just click the button to log in to your Slack account and choose a team!

Once you install the bot, you should be able to use the slash command on your team chat room. Just type /httpstatus followed by a status code.

About HTTP Status Cats

Internet is made of cats, so why not HTTP Status codes, explained with cats?

Originally, HTTP Status Cats was created by yours truly, me in 2011! It is best described on Know Your Meme.

I would never imagined I had such a 10-min fame at that time I created and posted the cat pics on Flickr. I was immediately featured on Boing Boing, Mashables, CNN Tech, BuzzFeed, and many more including international tech news etc. Especially, I loved that Boing Boing said I "just won the internet".

A good time.

HTTP Status Cats are later well-adopted by communities, and evolved into many APIs and apps, especially HTTP Status Cats API and its awesome domain, http.cat by Rogério Vicente. The page is also available in Catalan language, as its TLD shows!

Milo and Sandy

What has changed since 2011 is that Milo (right: black and fuzzy) and Sandy (left: tabby) as the cats of Status 204 are no longer with me. Both kitties has crossed the Rainbow Bridge in 2012 and 2015 respectively.