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Image search on Wikimedia Commons API

Search Wikimedia Commons (keyless) for freely-licensed images and return full + thumbnail URLs, dimensions, mime type, license, and attribution. Answers 'find an image of X', 'Commons photo of X', 'free/CC image of X', 'public domain picture of X'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/kb-image

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

datacommonswikimediaimagephotomediasearchcreative-commons

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/kb-image

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "query": "red panda",
  "limit": 3,
  "thumbWidth": 320
}

Example response

{
  "query": "red panda",
  "count": 1,
  "images": [
    {
      "title": "Red Panda (24986761703).jpg",
      "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/x/Red_Panda.jpg",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/x/Red_Panda.jpg/320px-Red_Panda.jpg",
      "descriptionUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Panda.jpg",
      "width": 4000,
      "height": 3000,
      "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
      "license": "CC BY-SA 2.0",
      "artist": "Mathias Appel"
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "red panda"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 10
    },
    "thumbWidth": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 320
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}