Openverse

Openverse API

REST API providing search and retrieval of openly-licensed images and audio from 800M+ works across cultural institutions, museums, and creative commons sources. Supports full-text search, license filtering, source filtering, and media metadata retrieval. OAuth2 authentication available for higher rate limits.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Documentation

https://docs.openverse.org/

https://docs.openverse.org/api/reference/authentication_and_throttling.html

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openverse/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml

Specifications

https://api.openverse.org/v1/schema/?format=json

SDKs

GitHubRepository

https://github.com/WordPress/openverse

Other Resources

https://api.openverse.org/v1/terms_of_use/

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openverse/api-client

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openverse/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openverse/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml

OpenAPI Specification