Free Stock Photo Search — Openverse, Pexels and Unsplash in one table, with license and attribution

Search openly licensed and free-to-use images and get one flat row per image: image URL, thumbnail, size, creator, license and a ready-to-paste attribution text. Built for bloggers, marketers, designers, newsletter and presentation makers, and developers who need legally clear images and do not want to read three different license pages.

• Openverse (Creative Commons and public-domain images from many collections): no key needed
• Pexels and Unsplash: optional, with your own free API key
• Filter by commercial use, modifications allowed (Openverse) and orientation
• Images are not downloaded: you get the URLs returned by each API

Try it free: leave input empty and press Start. The demo returns 10 Openverse images for "sunset" and is not charged.

Example output (shortened, illustrative):

source	title	creator	license	attributionText
openverse	Mountain lake at dawn	Jane Doe	CC BY-SA 4.0	"Mountain lake at dawn" by Jane Doe is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
pexels	A calm lake	Max Mustermann	Pexels License	Photo by Max Mustermann on Pexels
unsplash	blue lake between mountains	Ann Lee	Unsplash License	Photo by Ann Lee on Unsplash

Price: $1 per 1,000 images ($0.001 each). Example: 10 queries x 10 images = 100 rows = $0.10. Failed requests, searches with no results and the demo are free.

Input

• queries: one search per line (up to 50)
• sources: openverse (default), pexels, unsplash. Pexels and Unsplash run only when selected and the key is given (pexelsApiKey, unsplashAccessKey, both secret)
• commercialUseOnly, modificationsAllowed: license filters, Openverse only (Pexels and Unsplash licenses already allow both)
• orientation: any, landscape, portrait, square
• maxResultsPerQuery: 1 to 500, default 10, counted per query and per source
• unsplashAppName: name of your Unsplash app, used as utm_source in Unsplash links

Output fields (one row per image)

source, id, title, imageUrl, thumbnailUrl, width, height, pageUrl, creator, creatorUrl, license, licenseVersion, licenseUrl, attributionText, query. Extras: attributionHtml (same text with the required links, HTML-escaped), provider (Openverse: the collection, for example flickr), downloadTrackingUrl (Unsplash only, see below).

Attribution and license rules (read before you publish)

• Openverse: each image has its own Creative Commons license (or CC0 / Public Domain Mark). attributionText is the sentence Openverse generates for the image. Most CC licenses require credit, a link to the license and a note if you changed the image. Check license and licenseUrl for each image; NC means non-commercial only, ND means no changes.
• Pexels: free to use under the Pexels License. Credit is not legally required but the API terms ask you to credit the photographer and link to Pexels where you show API images; attributionText and attributionHtml do that.
• Unsplash: free to use under the Unsplash License. The API guidelines ask you to hotlink the URLs returned (imageUrl, thumbnailUrl: do not rewrite or re-host them) and to credit the photographer and Unsplash with links that carry utm_source=<your app>&utm_medium=referral. creatorUrl, pageUrl and attributionHtml already include it. When a photo is actually used or downloaded by your users, call downloadTrackingUrl (with your Authorization header) as the Unsplash guidelines require; this Actor does not call it because it downloads nothing.
• You need your own Pexels / Unsplash account and key and you accept their API terms. Unsplash demo apps are limited to 50 requests per hour, Pexels to 200 per hour by default.

How it works

• Calls the Openverse API (api.openverse.org/v1/images/) anonymously, 20 images per call, with a pause of 1.5 s between calls. On HTTP 429 the Actor waits (Retry-After if given, else 10 s, 30 s, 60 s) and retries up to 3 times; if the limit is still active it stops that source and keeps the rows already collected. Anonymous Openverse limits are strict, so very large runs may return fewer images than requested.
• Pexels (api.pexels.com/v1/search, up to 80 per call) and Unsplash (api.unsplash.com/search/photos, up to 30 per call) use the same pacing and retry rules.
• Your keys are used only for the run and are never logged or written to the output.
• A row is charged only after it is written. If you set a maximum cost per run, the run stops at the limit.

Price

Event	Price
image (one image row written)	$0.001

Not charged: failed requests, searches with no results, skipped sources and the empty-input demo.

Notes

Images belong to their creators; the license shown per image is what the source reports. This Actor does not verify licenses and is not legal advice. Pexels and Unsplash are trademarks of their owners; this Actor is not affiliated with them or with Openverse.

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