name: Openverse
description: >
  Openverse is a search engine providing programmatic access to the world's
  largest openly-licensed media catalog, covering 800M+ images and audio tracks
  from cultural institutions, museums, and creative commons sources including
  Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, iNaturalist, Europeana, Freesound, Jamendo, and
  more. Built by WordPress/Automattic under Creative Commons licensing principles.
image: https://openverse.org/openverse-logo.svg
tags:
  - Images
  - Audio
  - Creative Commons
  - Open Media
  - Search
  - Open Data
  - Cultural Heritage
  - Museums
url: https://openverse.org
apis:
  - name: Openverse API
    description: >
      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.
    image: https://openverse.org/openverse-logo.svg
    humanURL: https://api.openverse.org/v1/
    baseURL: https://api.openverse.org/v1
    tags:
      - Images
      - Audio
      - Creative Commons
      - Search
      - Open Media
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.openverse.org/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://api.openverse.org/v1/schema/?format=json
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://docs.openverse.org/api/reference/authentication_and_throttling.html
      - type: TermsOfService
        url: https://api.openverse.org/v1/terms_of_use/
      - type: GitHubRepository
        url: https://github.com/WordPress/openverse
      - type: NPMPackage
        url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openverse/api-client
      - type: Plans
        url: plans/plans.yml
      - type: RateLimits
        url: rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
      - type: FinOps
        url: finops/finops.yml
    contact:
      - FN: Openverse Team
        url: https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/
    x-apis-io-score: 0
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
created: "2026-06-13"
modified: "2026-06-13"
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openverse/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: "0.19"
common:
  - type: AgenticAccess
    url: agentic-access/openverse-agentic-access.yml
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/openverse-domain-security.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/openverse-authentication.yml
  - url: https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/feed/
    type: Blog