Image Search API (Multi-Engine, x402)

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Image Search API (Multi-Engine, x402) is a paid API for AI agents from api-production-17e1.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12, last successful call 2026-07-17).

Returns direct image URLs, source pages, and thumbnails as JSON from a multi-engine image metasearch (Bing Images and others), pay-per-query via x402 USDC.

Price / call$0.001

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How this service works

Image search API backed by SearxNG. Returns ranked image results with titles, source URLs, image URLs, and thumbnails for a given query.

Output

A JSON array of image results, each containing a direct image URL, thumbnail URL, and the source page URL where the image was found, up to the requested limit (default 5, max 20).

Example use cases

Find product photos for listing

“Search for real photos of a standing desk with dual monitors and give me the direct image URLs so I can use them as visual references for our product listing.”

Visual fact-checking a news story

“Find me actual photos of the 2024 flooding in Valencia, Spain — I need direct image URLs and the source pages so I can verify what the affected areas looked like.”

Gather blog post illustrations

“Look up up to 8 images of urban rooftop gardens and return the direct URLs and source pages — I want to pick a few to illustrate an article on sustainable city living.”

Technical details

Endpoint

GEThttps://api-production-17e1.up.railway.app/images?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs real image URLs (not generated images) for visual grounding, content enrichment, multimodal research, or fact-checking. Prefer it over web search endpoints when the primary need is image assets rather than text snippets. No API key or account required — just pay per query in USDC via x402, making it ideal for agent pipelines that need frictionless image lookup.

Side effects

Missing required query parameter 'q' → 400 Bad Request
Payment not provided or insufficient USDC → 402 Payment Required
Limit out of range (below 1 or above 20) → 400 validation error
No results found for the query → empty results array
Upstream image search engine unavailable → 502 or 503 error

Input

{
  "input": {
    "type": "http",
    "method": "GET",
    "queryParams": {
      "q": "artificial intelligence",
      "limit": 5
    }
  }
}

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
inputrequired	object

Output

{
  "count": 5,
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "engine": "searxng",
  "results": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/44302262@N08/4446961499",
      "title": "Adobe Illustrator vs Artificial Intelligence",
      "format": null,
      "engines": [
        "openverse"
      ],
      "img_src": "https://live.staticflickr.com/4011/4446961499_a5c56efedb.jpg",
      "thumbnail": null
    },
    {
      "url": "https://unsplash.com/photos/woman-following-recipe-on-tablet-in-kitchen-wC0-_KonXMQ",
      "title": "Woman following recipe on tablet in kitchen.",
      "format": null,
      "engines": [
        "unsplash"
      ],
      "img_src": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1773332585861-72cf1558a6fc?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080",
      "thumbnail": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1773332585861-72cf1558a6fc?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=200"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://artic.edu/artworks/111662",
      "title": "Frame-Theory, the Artificial Blossom, or the Blind Man's Bluff (1991) // Margaret Wharton American, 1943-2014",
      "format": null,
      "engines": [
        "artic"
      ],
      "img_src": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2//9b7f8d83-5e67-995f-e1e5-0e54206aea97/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
      "thumbnail": null
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/robot-s-hand-on-a-blue-background-8386437/",
      "title": "Robot's Hand on a Blue Background",
      "format": null,
      "engines": [
        "pexels"
      ],
      "img_src": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/8386437/pexels-photo-8386437.jpeg?cs=srgb&dl=pexels-tara-winstead-8386437.jpg&fm=jpg",
      "thumbnail": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/8386437/pexels-photo-8386437.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&h=130"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Scale.png",
      "title": "Artificial Intelligence Scale",
      "format": "image/png",
      "engines": [
        "wikicommons.images"
      ],
      "img_src": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Artificial_Intelligence_Scale.png",
      "thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Artificial_Intelligence_Scale.png/330px-Artificial_Intelligence_Scale.png"
    }
  ]
}

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