> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://getanyapi.com/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pexels Photo Search > Search Pexels for free stock photos by keyword. Returns image URLs in several sizes, dimensions, alt text, the photographer's name and profile, and the photo's Pexels page. **Price:** billed per result - \$0.55 per 1,000 requests base + \$3.30 per 1,000 results, capped at \$66.60 per 1,000 requests. **Routing:** 2 independent lanes are available in execution order. A failed attempt uses the next lane only when the request's payment authorizes that lane's price; the normalized schema stays the same. **Catalog:** [Pexels Photo Search pricing and uptime](https://getanyapi.com/api/pexels/search-photos) - live USD price, lane routing, and measured 30-day uptime. [Every Pexels endpoint](https://getanyapi.com/api/pexels). ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.json post /v1/run/pexels.search_photos openapi: 3.1.0 info: contact: email: support@getanyapi.com description: >- Any API, one wallet, USD, no subscriptions. Each API is a single discovered operation: send the normalized input, get a normalized result. Prices and payment outcomes are reported in USD; each operation documents the settlement policy for its enabled payment rails. title: AnyAPI version: 1.0.0 x-guidance: >- Use each operation's published method and path with its normalized JSON input (see the operation requestBody). Before setting a client or tool timeout, GET /v1/apis/{sku} and inspect its trailing-30-day latency p50/p95/p99 and sample; p99 is an observation, not a maximum. To pay: send your AnyAPI key (Authorization: Bearer, billed from your USD wallet). For operations that advertise an inline rail, pay per call inline with x402 - call with no key, receive HTTP 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header, then retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header (base, no account needed); or pay per call inline with MPP (Machine Payments Protocol) - call with no key, receive HTTP 402 with a WWW-Authenticate: Payment challenge, then retry with the Authorization: Payment header (tempo, no account needed). x402 settles after execution; execution failure is reported as released; mpp settles before execution; execution failure is reported as charged_undelivered. servers: - url: https://api.getanyapi.com security: - bearerAuth: [] - apiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: ahrefs x-group: Ahrefs - name: airbnb x-group: Airbnb - name: alibaba x-group: Alibaba - name: amazon x-group: Amazon - name: apollo x-group: Apollo - name: appstore x-group: Appstore - name: bluesky x-group: Bluesky - name: booking x-group: Booking - name: capterra x-group: Capterra - name: chatgpt x-group: Chatgpt - name: coinmarketcap x-group: Coinmarketcap - name: company x-group: Company - name: company-enrichment x-group: Company_enrichment - name: company-identify x-group: Company_identify - name: company-search x-group: Company_search - name: congress x-group: Congress - name: contact-enrichment x-group: Contact_enrichment - name: douyin x-group: Douyin - name: ebay x-group: Ebay - name: email x-group: Email - name: email-finding x-group: Email_finding - name: email-verification x-group: Email_verification - name: facebook x-group: Facebook - name: fiverr x-group: Fiverr - name: g2 x-group: G2 - name: gemini x-group: Gemini - name: github x-group: Github - name: glassdoor x-group: Glassdoor - name: google x-group: Google - name: google-ads x-group: Google Ads - name: google-finance x-group: Google Finance - name: google-shopping x-group: Google Shopping - name: hackernews x-group: Hackernews - name: indeed x-group: Indeed - name: instagram x-group: Instagram - name: job-search x-group: Job_search - name: linkedin x-group: Linkedin - name: maps x-group: Maps - name: mobile-phone x-group: Mobile_phone - name: naver x-group: Naver - name: nextdoor x-group: Nextdoor - name: people-search x-group: People_search - name: perplexity x-group: Perplexity - name: person x-group: Person - name: person-enrichment x-group: Person_enrichment - name: pexels x-group: Pexels - name: pinterest x-group: Pinterest - name: playstore x-group: Playstore - name: polymarket x-group: Polymarket - name: property-records x-group: Property_records - name: realtor x-group: Realtor - name: reddit x-group: Reddit - name: redfin x-group: Redfin - name: rednote x-group: Rednote - name: sec x-group: Sec - name: semrush x-group: Semrush - name: seo x-group: Seo - name: similarweb x-group: Similarweb - name: snapchat x-group: Snapchat - name: social x-group: Social - name: spotify x-group: Spotify - name: substack x-group: Substack - name: technographics x-group: Technographics - name: threads x-group: Threads - name: tiktok x-group: TikTok - name: tiktok-shop x-group: TikTok Shop - name: tripadvisor x-group: Tripadvisor - name: trustpilot x-group: Trustpilot - name: truthsocial x-group: Truthsocial - name: twitter x-group: X (Twitter) - name: unsplash x-group: Unsplash - name: upwork x-group: Upwork - name: walmart x-group: Walmart - name: web x-group: Web - name: weibo x-group: Weibo - name: yahoo-finance x-group: Yahoo Finance - name: yelp x-group: Yelp - name: youtube x-group: YouTube - name: zhihu x-group: Zhihu - name: zillow x-group: Zillow paths: /v1/run/pexels.search_photos: post: tags: - pexels summary: Pexels Photo Search description: >- Search Pexels for free stock photos by keyword. Returns image URLs in several sizes, dimensions, alt text, the photographer's name and profile, and the photo's Pexels page. **Price:** billed per result - \$0.55 per 1,000 requests base + \$3.30 per 1,000 results, capped at \$66.60 per 1,000 requests. **Routing:** 2 independent lanes are available in execution order. A failed attempt uses the next lane only when the request's payment authorizes that lane's price; the normalized schema stays the same. **Catalog:** [Pexels Photo Search pricing and uptime](https://getanyapi.com/api/pexels/search-photos) - live USD price, lane routing, and measured 30-day uptime. [Every Pexels endpoint](https://getanyapi.com/api/pexels). operationId: pexels_search_photos parameters: - description: >- Optional. Comma-separated keys (dotted paths like `author.name` descend into nested objects) to keep on each result item. Keys are matched relative to each result item after the `data`/`items` envelope is unwrapped, not against the top-level response envelope, so use `jq` to reshape the whole envelope. Shrinks the response without changing cost. in: query name: fields required: false schema: type: string - description: >- Optional. Cap the number of result rows returned; a `_truncated` note reports how many were withheld so you can page via the API's own `limit`. Does not change cost. in: query name: max_items required: false schema: minimum: 0 type: integer - description: >- Optional. Return only a structural outline (top-level keys, item counts, and per-field byte sizes) instead of the full data. Does not change cost. in: query name: summary required: false schema: type: boolean - description: >- Optional. A jq expression applied to the result envelope; its output replaces `output` (multiple outputs collect into an array). Reshape freely, e.g. `jq=.data | {title, description, md: .markdown[:3500]}`. Runs sandboxed with a 250ms / 2MB budget; on failure the full result is returned with a `jqError`. Does not change cost. in: query name: jq required: false schema: type: string - description: >- Optional. The most you are willing to pay for this one request, in US dollars (for example 0.05). Any route that would charge more than this is not used, so a request only ever runs on something you can afford. If nothing is available at or below your amount, the request is refused before it runs, nothing is charged, and the message tells you the cheapest price per request so you can raise it. Leave it out to accept the normal price. in: query name: max_cost_usd required: false schema: type: string - description: >- Optional wallet idempotency key, scoped to this customer for 24 hours. When the gateway honors the key, this synchronous in-process execution can continue after the caller disconnects, bounded by its execution deadline. A completed replayable result charges normally exactly once and can be replayed without another provider run or charge. A pending duplicate returns 409 idempotency_in_progress; reuse with different request semantics returns 409 idempotency_conflict. in: header name: Idempotency-Key required: false schema: maxLength: 255 minLength: 1 type: string requestBody: content: application/json: example: limit: 2 query: coffee schema: additionalProperties: false example: limit: 2 query: coffee properties: allowFallbacks: default: true description: >- Optional, default true. When false, only the sources listed in `source` may serve; the request is refused with no charge if none of them can. When true, the listed sources are tried first and any other source may serve after them, at the normal price. type: boolean ignoreSources: description: >- Optional. Source ids to skip for this request, taken from this endpoint's `lanes[].source.id`. The cheapest remaining source serves and the price is that of the dearest remaining source. An id that does not serve this endpoint, or that is also in `source`, is rejected as invalid input with no charge; skipping every source is rejected the same way. items: minLength: 1 type: string type: array uniqueItems: true limit: description: >- Maximum number of photos to return (1-20, default 20). You are billed per photo returned, so a lower limit costs less. maximum: 20 minimum: 1 type: integer minHeight: description: Only return photos at least this many pixels tall. minimum: 1 type: integer minWidth: description: Only return photos at least this many pixels wide. minimum: 1 type: integer orientation: description: >- Only return photos with this orientation. Omit for any orientation. enum: - landscape - portrait - square type: string peopleCount: description: >- Only return photos showing this many people: "0" for none, "1" or "2". Omit for any number. enum: - '0' - '1' - '2' type: string preferLatencyUnderMs: description: >- Optional; omit it and routing is unchanged, with the cheapest source serving. Prefer sources whose typical response time (median over the trailing 30 days, as published on this endpoint's lane health) is under this many milliseconds; among those, the cheapest serves. This can raise your price: when the cheapest source misses the target, a faster and dearer one serves, and you are quoted and charged its price. If no source is that fast the request is still served, by whichever source offers the best speed for its price - it is never refused for being slow. Sources we have not timed are tried last. This is a preference, not a guarantee: the median describes past requests and is not a ceiling on this one, and it excludes any wait this request itself asks for. On a paginated walk it applies to the first page only: later pages stay with the source that page chose, at the price it was quoted. minimum: 1 type: integer query: description: >- Keyword or phrase to search Pexels photos for, e.g. "coffee" or "city skyline". minLength: 1 type: string requireFields: description: >- Optional; omit it and routing is unchanged, with the cheapest source serving. Name the output fields this request must be able to return, for example `tags`, and it is served only by a source that returns every one of them. Fields you do not name are still returned whenever the serving source has them. This can raise your price: when the cheapest source cannot return a named field, a dearer source serves, and you are quoted and charged its price. A named field can still be absent on a photo that genuinely lacks it. Naming a combination that no single source returns together is refused as invalid input, with no charge. items: enum: - tags type: string type: array uniqueItems: true source: description: >- Optional. Source ids to prefer, in order, taken from this endpoint's `lanes[].source.id` in /catalog or /apis. Omit it and the cheapest source serves, with automatic failover. Listed sources are tried first in the order given, then the others, unless `allowFallbacks` is false. A single source with `allowFallbacks` false is served only by that source at its price, quoted and charged exactly, with no failover. The price is that of the dearest source that may serve. An id that does not serve this endpoint is rejected as invalid input with no charge; a listed source that is not serving right now is refused with no charge, so omit `source` to be served by another. On a paginated walk, later pages must include the source that served page one, or omit `source`. items: minLength: 1 type: string type: array uniqueItems: true required: - query title: Pexels Photo Search input type: object required: true responses: '200': content: application/json: schema: properties: costUsd: description: >- USD charged on the original run. On a replay this value is echoed for parity; the replay itself is free. type: number hint: description: >- Optional one-line nudge, absent when there is nothing to say. `large_result:` suggests the fields/max_items/summary/jq controls for a big response. `paging_unavailable:` means this result came from a source that cannot return a `nextCursor`, so it may be INCOMPLETE and cannot be continued - re-run with `requireFields: ["nextCursor"]` to be served only by a source that can page, which may cost more per request. type: string items: description: >- Number of result rows returned. For per-result SKUs the per-item cost is charged against this count; for input-priced SKUs the charge is per submitted input, independent of this count. type: integer jqError: description: >- Present only when a `jq` expression failed; `output` then carries the full unshaped result and this explains why the reshape did not apply. type: string output: anyOf: - additionalProperties: false properties: data: oneOf: - type: 'null' - additionalProperties: false properties: photos: description: >- Free Pexels photos matching the keyword, in Pexels' relevance order. items: properties: alt: description: >- Alt text describing the photo. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. type: string x-anyapi-must-populate: true color: description: >- Dominant color as a hex code, e.g. "#918c79". type: string colors: description: >- Palette of the photo's main colors as hex codes. items: type: string type: array createdUtc: description: >- When the photo was uploaded. UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds. type: - number - 'null' downloadUrl: description: >- Direct download URL for the full-quality file. format: uri type: string height: description: >- Original height in pixels. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. type: integer x-anyapi-must-populate: true id: description: >- Photo id on the source site. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. type: string x-anyapi-must-populate: true image: description: >- Display-size image URL, 1440 px wide. The query parameters set the size, so keep the URL intact. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. format: uri type: string x-anyapi-must-populate: true imageMedium: description: Medium image URL, 750 px wide. format: uri type: string imageOriginal: description: >- Full-resolution original image URL. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. format: uri type: string x-anyapi-must-populate: true license: description: >- License the photo is published under. "Pexels" means the Pexels License: free to use, attribution appreciated but not required. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. type: string x-anyapi-must-populate: true orientation: description: landscape, portrait, or square. type: string photographer: description: >- Photographer's display name, for attribution. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. type: string x-anyapi-must-populate: true photographerAvatarUrl: description: Photographer's profile picture URL. format: uri type: string photographerInstagramUsername: description: >- Photographer's Instagram username, when they list one on Pexels. type: string photographerLocation: description: >- Photographer's location as they state it on Pexels, when they list one. type: string photographerUrl: description: >- Photographer's Pexels profile page, for attribution. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. format: uri type: string x-anyapi-must-populate: true photographerUsername: description: >- Photographer's Pexels handle, without the leading @. type: string publishedUtc: description: >- When Pexels published the photo. UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds. type: - number - 'null' tags: description: >- Pexels' tags for the photo. One source returns at most 25 tags; name tags in requireFields to be served the full list. items: type: string type: array thumbnail: description: Thumbnail image URL, 130 px tall. format: uri type: string title: description: Photo title set by the photographer. type: string url: description: >- The photo's page on pexels.com. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. format: uri type: string x-anyapi-must-populate: true width: description: >- Original width in pixels. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. type: integer x-anyapi-must-populate: true required: - id - url - image type: object type: array required: - photos type: object found: type: boolean reason: description: >- Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost. enum: - not_found type: string required: - found - data title: Pexels Photo Search output type: object - type: 'null' description: >- Normalized output, or null when the replay payload was not retained. provider: description: Always "AnyAPI". type: string replayed: description: >- True when this response replays the durable result of an earlier run without billing or upstream execution. type: boolean resultId: description: >- Opaque handle to the full unshaped result, cached ~15 min. Re-shape it for free (fields/max_items/summary/jq) via GET /v1/results/{id}, no re-billing. Absent when the result was too large to cache. type: string source: description: >- The source that served this run. Pass its `id` back as `source` to prefer it again, or as `ignoreSources` to avoid it. Absent when no source identity applies to the run. properties: artworkKey: description: Key for this source's artwork. type: string id: description: Stable identifier for this source. type: string kind: description: >- anonymous is a stable identity for an unattributed source; brand names the dataset that supplies the data. enum: - anonymous - brand type: string name: description: Display name for this source. type: string required: - id - name - kind - artworkKey type: object required: - output - provider - costUsd - items - replayed type: object description: Normalized result. headers: Idempotency-Replayed: description: >- Present only when the request carried an Idempotency-Key this gateway honored. "false" means the key was claimed and the run executed freshly; "true" means it replayed a prior identical run and was NOT charged again. Absent means either no key was sent or this gateway does not honor keys, so a retry could be charged twice. schema: enum: - 'false' - 'true' type: string PAYMENT-RESPONSE: description: Inline x402 payment receipt. schema: type: string Payment-Receipt: description: Inline mpp payment receipt. schema: type: string X-PAYMENT-RESPONSE: description: Inline x402 payment receipt. schema: type: string '400': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: >- Input did not match the schema, or the upstream rejected the request. '401': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Missing or invalid API key. '402': content: application/json: schema: oneOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/PaymentRequiredError' - $ref: '#/components/schemas/TrialCapReached' application/problem+json: schema: properties: challengeId: minLength: 1 type: string status: const: 402 type: integer required: - status - challengeId type: object description: >- Insufficient wallet balance or spend cap, or an inline-payment challenge. Agent trials receive a trial_cap_reached continuation with a live RFC 8628 device authorization. headers: PAYMENT-REQUIRED: description: Inline x402 payment challenge. schema: type: string WWW-Authenticate: description: Inline mpp payment challenge. schema: type: string '404': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: >- Unknown API. A target that does not exist is not a 404: the call succeeds with `output.found` false and `data` null. '409': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: >- Idempotency collision. Codes: idempotency_in_progress means retry after the Retry-After delay; idempotency_conflict means use a new key for different request semantics; idempotency_needs_review means stop retrying and contact AnyAPI support with X-Anyapi-Request-Id. '422': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: >- The request was well formed but this API cannot serve the requested target site; the body's `alternatives` array lists the AnyAPI APIs that can. '429': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: >- The upstream was rate limited; resend the same request, with the same cursor if one was sent, after Retry-After seconds. Inspect `payment` when present before deciding whether to retry. '500': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: >- An internal error prevented completion. Inspect payment when present before retrying. '502': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: >- Every provider failed with a server/transport error, or inline payment settlement could not be confirmed; inspect `payment` when present before retrying. security: - bearerAuth: [] - apiKeyAuth: [] - {} components: schemas: Error: properties: code: description: Stable machine-readable error code when the endpoint defines one. type: string error: description: Customer-safe error message. type: string payment: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Payment' requestId: description: >- This run's AnyAPI request id, the same value as the X-Anyapi-Request-Id response header. Quote it to support. Absent on endpoints that do not execute a run. format: uuid type: string required: - error type: object PaymentRequiredError: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' - properties: error: not: const: trial_cap_reached type: object TrialCapReached: properties: error: const: trial_cap_reached type: string message: description: >- Human-relayable continuation instructions, including an executable token poll. type: string upgrade: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentUpgrade' required: - error - message - upgrade type: object Payment: properties: costUsd: description: Known USD payment amount for this request. minimum: 0 type: number rail: minLength: 1 type: string settlementState: enum: - charged_undelivered - indeterminate type: string required: - rail - settlementState - costUsd type: object AgentUpgrade: properties: authorizationServer: format: uri type: string clientId: type: string device: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeviceUpgrade' scope: type: string required: - authorizationServer - scope type: object DeviceUpgrade: properties: deviceCode: type: string expiresIn: minimum: 0 type: integer grantType: type: string interval: minimum: 1 type: integer tokenEndpoint: format: uri type: string userCode: type: string verificationUri: format: uri type: string verificationUriComplete: format: uri type: string required: - verificationUriComplete - verificationUri - userCode - deviceCode - tokenEndpoint - grantType - interval - expiresIn type: object securitySchemes: bearerAuth: description: Your AnyAPI key as a Bearer token. scheme: bearer type: http x-default: YOUR_ANYAPI_KEY apiKeyAuth: description: Your AnyAPI key. in: header name: X-API-Key type: apiKey x-default: YOUR_ANYAPI_KEY ````