Photography APIs

Generates PDFs and social images from templates using JSON data, with a free plan that needs no credit card and REST API access plus SDKs for Python, PHP, Java and JavaScript.

Optimizes JPEG, PNG and GIF images supplied by URL or upload, processed synchronously or via callback, and requires an API key from your account dashboard for every call.

Performs image manipulation such as filters and memes plus novelty endpoints like jokes and roasts, with a free plan and a one dollar premium tier for more requests.

Generates personalized branded images from templates with text, images and styling, returning PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF or PDF output, authenticated with a bearer API key.

Lets you search, upload and manage photos and photosets on Flickr's library, free for non-commercial use with an API key and OAuth required for a user's own account actions.

Converts any web page URL into a PNG, JPEG or GIF screenshot, with a free tier of 100 non-commercial snapshots a month that needs no credit card to start.

Serves random or specific placeholder photos sourced from Unsplash, resizable through the URL path with grayscale and blur filters, powered by Fastly and needing no key.

Provides curated and searchable stock photos and videos across 28 languages for free, though new API key issuance is currently paused for first time applicants.

Creates images and videos from templates through a REST API, dynamic URLs or CSV import, authenticated with a bearer API key and asynchronous render jobs.

Gives access to over 5.9 million free images and videos with unlimited requests allowed, requiring a free API key obtained after creating a Pixabay account.

Searches and licenses premium editorial and creative stock photography from Getty's catalog, requiring OAuth credentials issued only to approved partner accounts.

Searches and retrieves GIFs and stickers from Giphy's library, with new keys starting on a beta tier limited to 100 requests per hour until approved for production.

Crops the background or foreground out of photos through a RapidAPI endpoint, with a free plan offering fifty images a month capped at one request per second.

Removes and edits image backgrounds with AI, billed per processed image from around two cents for basic removal, with a sandbox of free watermarked calls to test first.

Uploads, hosts and searches images and albums on Imgur, free for non-commercial apps with roughly twelve thousand five hundred requests and 1,250 uploads per day.

Manages and optimizes hosted images and files with over 40 REST commands for upload, search and metadata, capped at 7,000 requests per rolling 60 minute window.

Removes image backgrounds automatically in one call, with the first 50 requests each month free and throughput capped near 500 megapixel equivalent images per minute.

Manages digital assets and metadata for an enterprise photo library through a REST API, available to existing Webdam customers using their own account credentials.

Searches and retrieves high resolution wallpapers along with tag and collection data, free to use with no key required for general access but capped at 45 requests a minute.

Searches, previews and licenses stock photos, videos and music from Shutterstock, with a free tier limited to the free media collection and reduced request volumes.

Searches and downloads from over 8.8 million free high quality photos, with a free developer tier capped at 1,000 requests per hour and higher volume Enterprise plans.

Lets apps let users pick photos through the Picker API or upload media into a user's Google Photos library, requiring OAuth consent and compliance with Google's policies.

Serves placeholder photos of Keanu Reeves sized through the URL path, with grayscale and young Keanu filter options and images cached client side for one day, no key needed.

Generates a customizable animated typing effect SVG for GitHub README files and websites, configured entirely through URL parameters with no signup required.

Compresses JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF and BMP images for free with no API key, capped at five megabytes per file and limited to personal, non-commercial use only.