Cloudinary Search API

The Search API exposes Lucene-style query expressions across asset metadata, tags, contextual metadata, structured metadata, and AI-derived tags. Supports sorting, aggregation, pagination via cursors, and saved searches. Visual search and similarity search use perceptual hashes and embeddings to find visually similar assets.

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: cloudinary:search
name: Cloudinary Search API
tags:
- Asset Discovery
- Search
- Visual Search
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1
humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/search_api
properties:
- url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/search_api
  type: Documentation
description: The Search API exposes Lucene-style query expressions across asset metadata, tags, contextual
  metadata, structured metadata, and AI-derived tags. Supports sorting, aggregation, pagination via cursors,
  and saved searches. Visual search and similarity search use perceptual hashes and embeddings to find
  visually similar assets.