# fastapi.online — Image Metadata Extraction

> fastapi.online — Image Metadata Extraction is a paid API for AI agents from api.fastapi.online, paid per call via x402, $0.0005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Extracts embedded metadata (EXIF, dimensions, format, color profile, etc.) from an uploaded image file

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.fastapi.online/image-metadata
- Price: $0.0005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fastapi-online-image-metadata-extraction-7fc2b903
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_4iDqjMB5FJ_KO-tNZTUjU

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability fastapi-online-image-metadata-extraction-7fc2b903 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull out all the metadata from this JPEG photo — things like dimensions, format, creation date, and any EXIF camera info embedded in it?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically extract embedded metadata from image files without signing up for a service — paying only $0.0005 USDC per call via x402 crypto payment. Ideal for lightweight pipelines, one-off inspections, or agent workflows that need EXIF or format information from user-uploaded images.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported file format returns an error (only PNG, JPEG, WebP accepted)
- Corrupted or truncated image file may fail to parse
- Image with no embedded metadata returns minimal or empty EXIF fields
- File too large may cause a timeout or payload rejection
- Missing or malformed binary body returns a 400 validation error

## How this service works

Chat, embeddings, OCR, speech-to-text, image editing, image understanding (captioning/Q&amp;A), text-to-speech, translation, writing tools, classification tools, developer tools, local utilities, format/checksum validators, encoding &amp; crypto utilities, date/time calculators, geo/coordinate math, math &amp; finance calculators, novelty tools, and business/social writing generators — 179 endpoints in all, across multiple specialized self-hosted models. Pay per call with crypto — no signup — or get an API key.

## Output

Returns structured metadata extracted from the uploaded image, potentially including file format, pixel dimensions, color mode/profile, EXIF fields (camera make/model, exposure settings, ISO, GPS coordinates, timestamps), and other embedded properties depending on what is present in the file.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "file": {
   "type": "string",
   "format": "binary",
   "description": "Image file (PNG/JPEG/WebP)"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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