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
Documentation
https://docs.openverse.org/
Authentication
https://docs.openverse.org/api/reference/authentication_and_throttling.html
RateLimits
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openverse/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
Specifications
SDKs
Other Resources
TermsOfService
https://api.openverse.org/v1/terms_of_use/
NPMPackage
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openverse/api-client
Plans
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openverse/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
FinOps
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openverse/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml