# Free Image Search via Openverse

> Free Image Search via Openverse is a paid API for AI agents from bess-x402.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Search openly licensed (Creative Commons and public domain) images from Flickr, Wikimedia, and museums, returning image URLs, sizes, creator info, license details, and ready-made attribution lines.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/media/images?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-image-search-via-openverse-99375aa8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aIdFJ9lXhkUOoywBfyThb

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 free-image-search-via-openverse-99375aa8
```

Example prompt: Find me up to 10 freely licensed images of 'cherry blossom' that I can use commercially — give me the image URLs and the attribution lines I need to include.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need legally safe, openly licensed images with proper attribution metadata already provided — ideal for content creators, bloggers, and developers who want to illustrate posts, slides, or websites without manual license checking. Prefer this over general web image search when license compliance and attribution accuracy matter, or when you need to filter specifically to commercially usable images.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if the search query is too specific or niche — try broader terms
- License filter 'commercial' may return fewer results for obscure topics
- Rate limiting or service unavailability from the Openverse upstream API
- Invalid license_type value returns an error — use only 'commercial', 'modification', or 'all'
- Limit out of range (must be 1-20) returns a validation error

## How this service works

Search openly licensed images (Creative Commons and public domain) from Flickr, Wikimedia and museums via Openverse: image URL, size, creator, license and a ready-made attribution line. Filter to commercially usable images. Use to illustrate posts, slides or sites legally.

## Output

Returns a list of openly licensed images, each with the image URL, image dimensions, creator name, license type (e.g. CC BY 2.0), source platform (Flickr, Wikimedia, museum), and a pre-formatted attribution string ready to paste into a post or slide.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search words"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Maximum number of results (1-20)"
      },
      "license_type": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "commercial, modification or all"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-image-search-via-openverse-99375aa8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from bess-x402.onrender.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/bess-x402.onrender.com/llms.txt)