Let's Validate Alternatives (2025)

Resizable kitten placeholder images. A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you'll get a placeholder.

Images from Unsplash. Get a specific image by ID, or generate a static random image by forwarding a seed in the url. It makes your image grayscale, or blurs it a little, or you can go pro. And use advanced features like avoiding cache, use a keyword random in this api. Also lets you lists entire images with their url so that you can produce a masonry effect on your website.

Meme Photos. The Imgflip API uses a RESTful JSON interface. Requests to the API may be rate-limited if you make a lot of requests. There is currently no paid version of the API, but we may create one if there are enough applications that need more requests than we are able to fulfill on a free basis. If you're considering using this API, feel free to contact us at general@imgflip.com with any questions, suggestions, or concerns you may have.

Upload images. The Gyazo API can be used in a wide array of apps to upload new images, show a Gyazo user’s images, and more. It provides a RESTful API for HTTP requests and returns a response in JSON. This should be familiar to anyone who has used major APIs before such as Amazon S3 and Twitter.

Get all your gifs. By integrating with GIPHY, the first and largest GIF search engine, you gain free access to our ever-growing content library of GIFs and Stickers, plus brand new features like animated Emoji and Text — featuring the latest in entertainment, sports, and breaking news from GIPHY's official content partners. The fastest and easiest way to bring the full GIPHY experience directly to your app is with GIPHY SDK. Built with developers and product designers in mind, GIPHY SDK is a top-to-bottom solution for all things GIF in your app. This includes interfacing with GIPHY API, fetching and caching assets, and displaying GIFs and Stickers on screen in customizable UI templates. With billions of requests a day, it’s safe to say GIPHY knows GIFs. We're excited to share our best-in-class tools with you so your users can have the best GIF experience possible, with all the same features they're already enjoying on Facebook, Slack, Instagram, and more – with just a few lines of code.

Create with the largest open collection of high-quality photos. For free. The API lets you List photos, get a specific photo, fetch random photo, find statisctics, tarcks a numbers of times a photo has been downloaded, update / like or unlike a photo. You can add search queries to your request url and also find collections related to a specific term.

Photography. Welcome to the Pixabay API, which gives you access to over 1,9 million photos, illustrations, vector graphics, and videos - for free. Unlimited requests, reliable, stable, and simple to set up. We trust our API so much, we even run Pixabay's official Android and iOS mobile apps on it.

Imgur's API exposes the entire Imgur infrastructure via a standardized programmatic interface. Using Imgur's API, you can do just about anything you can do on imgur.com, while using your programming language of choice. The Imgur API is a RESTful API based on HTTP requests and JSON responses.

Jiffier GIFs. Gfycat’s API is OAuth2 based and uses JSON for input and responses. All requests are made to endpoints beginning: https://api.gfycat.com/v1 All requests must be secure, i.e. https, not http.

Image management solutions like optimization, manipulation, hosting

Image manipulation and processing

Build applications using the world's most powerful imagery. Our RESTful APIs are supported with technical documentation, sample code and SDKs so you can get up and running quickly. Access the world's most moving content Bring your story to life with premium images and videos. Streamline your workflows Integrate our search and download experience in your content publishing tools. Using our web-based API tool, step through some common workflow scenarios. Build more engaging websites with access to over 84 million embeddable images.