Pixabay-api

All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.

Pixabay API docs: https://pixabay.com/api/docs/

Installation

npm install pixabay-api

In order to get result of searchImages or searchVideos you need authenticate key, which can be obtained by sign up on pixabay.com

Examples

searchImages(key, query, options, validate = true)

Basic example

import { searchImages } from 'pixabay-api';

searchImages(AUTH_KEY, 'puppy').then((r) => console.log(r));
// { totalHits: 500,
//   hits:
//    [ { previewHeight: 99,
//        likes: 108,
//        favorites: 87,
//        tags: 'chihuahua, dog, puppy',
//        webformatHeight: 426,
//        views: 38770,
//        webformatWidth: 640,
//        previewWidth: 150,
//        comments: 17,
//        downloads: 11050,
//        pageURL: 'https://pixabay.com/en/chihuahua-dog-puppy-cute-pet-621112/',
//        previewURL: 'https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2015/02/02/17/06/chihuahua-621112_150.jpg',
//        webformatURL: 'https://pixabay.com/get/ef37b00e29f61c2ad65a5854e34b4294e277eac818b5184993f0c07fafe9_640.jpg',
//        imageWidth: 5184,
//        user_id: 740400,
//        user: 'Teerasuwat',
//        type: 'photo',
//        id: 621112,
//        userImageURL: 'https://cdn.pixabay.com/user/2015/02/02/17-19-43-530_250x250.jpg',
//        imageHeight: 3456 },
//        ...
//    ],
//   total: 3343
// }

Bad values for some props will throw an error

await searchImages(AUTH_KEY, 'puppy', {per_page: 203});
// will throw an error:
// Error: Request.per_page: '203', but accepted values  3 - 200

To suppress those errors, turn off validation

await searchImages(AUTH_KEY, 'puppy', {per_page: 203}, false);
// Will return bad http request, no error

with Authenticate you no longer need to add auth_key within searchImages

import { authenticate } from 'pixabay-api';

const { searchImages, searchVideos } = authenticate(AUTH_KEY);
await searchImages('puppy'); // no need to add auth_key
await searchImages('birthday cake', {per_page: 20});  // no need to add auth_key
await searchVideos('dog'); // no need to add auth key

searchVideos(key, query, options, validate = true)

Searching for videos has same interface as searchImages

import { searchVideos } from 'pixabay-api';

searchVideos(AUTH_KEY, 'puppy');

FAQ

How to obtain Authenticate Key ?

sign up on pixabay.com

I cannot get response from searchImages or searchVideos

Probably you forget to add auth_key or you have bad one. First, make sure that you have right auth_key by pasting this code (with your auth_key) https://pixabay.com/api/?key={ KEY }&response_group=high_resolution&q=yellow+flower in browser, you should see response similar to one in Example section.

How to retrieve high resolution images ?

request full api access