aid: lightly-ai url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightly-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Lightly kind: company description: Lightly is a data-curation and active-learning platform for computer vision. The LightlyOne platform exposes a REST API at https://api.lightly.ai for managing datasets, samples, embeddings, cloud datasources, selection / active-learning runs (the LightlyOne Worker), tags, and jobs. Lightly also maintains the open-source lightly self-supervised learning SDK, plus LightlyTrain and LightlyEdge products. image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - AI - Computer Vision - Data Curation - Active Learning - Embeddings created: '2026-06-21' modified: '2026-06-21' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: lightly-ai:lightly-datasets-api name: Lightly Datasets API tags: - Datasets - Computer Vision - Data Curation image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1 properties: - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs type: Documentation - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html type: APIReference - url: openapi/lightly-ai-openapi.yml type: OpenAPI - url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json type: Postman - url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly type: GitHub description: Create, list, update, and delete LightlyOne datasets (image, video, crop, and embedding dataset types), look datasets up by name, query child datasets, and register dataset uploads on the LightlyOne platform. - aid: lightly-ai:lightly-samples-embeddings-api name: Lightly Samples and Embeddings API tags: - Samples - Embeddings - Vectors image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/embeddings baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1 properties: - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/embeddings type: Documentation - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html type: APIReference - url: openapi/lightly-ai-openapi.yml type: OpenAPI - url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json type: Postman - url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly type: GitHub description: Manage samples within a dataset (create, list, read, update) with signed read / write URLs, and manage embeddings - list, delete, request signed CSV read / write URLs, mark embeddings processed, and trigger 2D embedding projection jobs. - aid: lightly-ai:lightly-datasources-api name: Lightly Datasources API tags: - Datasources - Cloud Storage - S3 image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/set-up-your-first-dataset baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1 properties: - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/set-up-your-first-dataset type: Documentation - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html type: APIReference - url: openapi/lightly-ai-openapi.yml type: OpenAPI - url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json type: Postman - url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly type: GitHub description: Configure and inspect the cloud datasource backing a dataset (S3, GCS, Azure, or local), list raw data, metadata, and prediction files in the datasource, and track the processed-until timestamp for incremental ingestion. - aid: lightly-ai:lightly-selection-active-learning-api name: Lightly Selection and Active Learning API tags: - Selection - Active Learning - Worker image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/customize-a-selection baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1 properties: - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/customize-a-selection type: Documentation - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html type: APIReference - url: openapi/lightly-ai-openapi.yml type: OpenAPI - url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json type: Postman - url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly type: GitHub description: Register LightlyOne Workers and schedule compute-worker runs that execute a selection / active-learning configuration over a dataset, producing curated subsets via embeddings, metadata, and model predictions, plus run artifacts and logs. - aid: lightly-ai:lightly-jobs-tags-api name: Lightly Jobs and Tags API tags: - Jobs - Tags - Export image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1 properties: - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs type: Documentation - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html type: APIReference - url: openapi/lightly-ai-openapi.yml type: OpenAPI - url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json type: Postman - url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly type: GitHub description: Poll asynchronous platform jobs by id, and manage dataset tags - create initial and named tags, delete tags, and export tagged subsets to ZIP, filename lists, Label Studio, Labelbox, and Sama label-task formats. - aid: lightly-ai:lightly-oss-sdk name: Lightly Self-Supervised Learning SDK (OSS) tags: - SDK - Open Source - Self-Supervised Learning image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/self-supervised-learning/ baseURL: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly properties: - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/self-supervised-learning/ type: Documentation - url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly type: GitHub description: The open-source (Apache-2.0) lightly Python library for self-supervised representation learning on images (SimCLR, MoCo, DINO, BYOL, and more). It is a pip-installable PyTorch SDK and is distinct from the hosted LightlyOne platform REST API; the same package also ships the ApiWorkflowClient used to call the platform. common: - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/lightly-ai - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightly-tech - type: Website url: https://www.lightly.ai - type: Documentation url: https://docs.lightly.ai/ - type: Plans url: plans/lightly-ai-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/lightly-ai-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/lightly-ai-finops.yml maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com