10 Top Images APIs - ProgrammableWeb

The Internet would be a very bland place without images. Photographs, graphics, and animations are vital to enhance websites and applications in order to attract the attention of users, provide visual information, and even invoke emotions. Images aid in User Experience by making an application easier to view and navigate, giving depth and context to articles, providing visualizations of products or services, and getting noticed in social media feeds or other websites.

Developers wishing to dive deeper into image services to improve their own applications need to discover suitable Images APIs.

What is an Images API?

An Images API is an Application Programming Interface in which developers can utilize to interact with images, image data, image editing, and other image services.

Developers wanting to peruse these APIs should check out the Images category in the ProgrammableWeb API directory. This article highlights the ten most popular Images APIs as determined by page visits on ProgrammableWeb.

1. Random.dog API

Random.dog APITrack this API enables users to input and retrieve photos or animated gifs of random dogs. Use it to access random dog images and videos that are provided by random people to entertain and brighten your day.

2. Giphy API

Giphy is an animated search engine for discovering and sharing GIF images. Giphy exposes its search capabilities through a RESTlike APITrack this API. The API is comprised of nine JSON endpoints, allowing developers to search for GIFs using a variety of filters and search parameters.

3. Remove.bg API

Remove.bg provides a tool to remove background areas from images. The Remove.bg APITrack this API is an image editing service that removes the background of photos of persons, and products. The maximum output resolution is 10 megapixels.

4. Pinterest API

Pinterest is a social network for posting images on an online bulletin board. The Pinterest RESTful APITrack this API allows developers to integrate the Pinterest Pin features into their applications. API methods are available for users, boards, pins, and sections.

5. Google Photos API

Google Photos allows users to back up their photos and lets users use Google Assistant to create albums and collages. The Google Photos Library APITrack this API will allow developers to port Google Photos, with all its tools, into their own application. The API enables applications to read, write, share photos and more.

6. Page2Images API

Page2Images is a website thumbnail creator optimized for mobile devices. Page2Images exposes its service through a REST APITrack this API . The API allows websites and applications to generate thumbnails of a given URL. The API is able to specify image size, device, screen size, and more.

7. Thumbalizer API

Use the Thumbalizr APITrack this API to submit URLs to automatically get a thumbnail image of that URL's web page contents. The thumbnails in JPG or PNG are sized according to the pixel size parameter (width) that is specified as well as specified quality of the thumbnail, and numerous other options.

8. The Cat API

The Cat API provides developers with free access to random cat pictures. With The Cat APITrack this API, users can specify the number of returned results, image type, image size, and the category of the cat picture. The API also allows an application to vote on images, retrieve votes, favorite images, list categories, and more.

9. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs API

The Library of Congress of its Print & Photographs Online Catalog API offers access to 15 million images from the Library of Congress. Developers can use the API to search for images by description term, and, within particular collections, for specific image types, etc. API methods support specification of a search query, either across the entire collection or restricted to certain elements, along with optional filtering criteria like subject and format. Methods also enable structuring of results and retrieval of related items.

10. DogCEO API

The Dog CEO Dog API allows developers to access and integrate over 20,000 images of dogs from over 120 breeds with other applications. The images are supplied by the Stanford Dogs Dataset.

Find more than 600 APIs, plus 500 SDKs and other developer resources in the Images category.

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