# Openverse Openly Licensed Image Search

> Openverse Openly Licensed Image Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.fadeandco.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Searches Openverse for Creative Commons and public domain images, returning title, creator, license, attribution text, source page, direct image URL, and image dimensions.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.fadeandco.workers.dev/api/dev/openverse-media?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/openverse-openly-licensed-image-search-ddac6e7c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bLIu_JZbDI2uLWXtuUO1R

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 openverse-openly-licensed-image-search-ddac6e7c
```

Example prompt: Find me up to 10 openly licensed images of 'vintage bicycles' — I need the title, creator, license type, ready-made attribution text, and the direct image URL for each result.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to find images that are legally reusable under Creative Commons or public domain terms, and you need the attribution information pre-formatted. It is ideal when the user requires ready-made attribution strings rather than generating their own, or when commercial/editorial reuse compliance matters. Prefer it over general web image search when license certainty is critical.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for obscure or niche queries
- Slow response times up to ~15 seconds due to upstream Openverse API latency
- Query string shorter than 1 or longer than 100 characters returns a validation error
- Limit parameter outside 1–20 range is rejected
- Upstream Openverse service downtime causes failure
- Some images may have broken or expired direct URLs at the source

## How this service works

Openverse openly licensed image search (Creative Commons and public domain): title, creator, license, ready-made attribution, source page, direct image URL and size. Images only; each result keeps its own license. Results can be slow (up to ~15 s).

## Output

A list of image results (up to 20, default 5), each containing: image title, creator name, license type and version, a pre-formatted attribution string, a link to the source page, the direct image URL, and image dimensions (width and height in pixels).

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search words, 1 to 100 characters"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "How many results, 1 to 20 (default 5)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/openverse-openly-licensed-image-search-ddac6e7c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.fadeandco.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.fadeandco.workers.dev/llms.txt)