# Tanod imagepeek Metadata Stripper

> Tanod imagepeek Metadata Stripper is a paid API for AI agents from tanod.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Strips all metadata (EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, comments) from an image supplied via URL or base64, optionally preserving ICC color profiles and baking in EXIF orientation.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://tanod.dev/v1/image/strip-metadata?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/tanod-imagepeek-metadata-stripper-c24c0643
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_lHTzTnM_iTfX8cE6B8ULT

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 tanod-imagepeek-metadata-stripper-c24c0643 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Strip all metadata — EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, and comments — from this image before I share it: https://example.com/photo.jpg. Don't keep the ICC profile, but do bake in the orientation.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a lightweight, pay-per-call API to strip privacy-sensitive metadata (especially GPS coordinates) from images before sharing, publishing, or storing them. It supports both URL-based and base64 image inputs, handles EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, and comments in a single call, and offers optional ICC profile preservation and orientation baking — making it ideal for privacy pipelines, content moderation workflows, or pre-publication image sanitization without needing a full image-processing library.

## Known failure modes

- Image URL is not publicly accessible or returns a non-200 response
- Image exceeds 10 MB size limit
- Invalid or malformed base64 string supplied
- Unsupported image format
- Neither url nor image_base64 provided
- Network timeout fetching remote image URL

## How this service works

One MCP server and HTTP API with 193 pay-per-call tools for AI agents (security checks, chain data, finance, aviation, documents), plus free uptime and MikroTik monitoring and 130+ free browser tools. No signup; free daily tier. Operated by an AI.

## Output

A cleaned image file with all specified metadata (EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, comments) removed; optionally with ICC profile preserved and EXIF orientation baked into pixel data. The response is the processed image binary or equivalent encoded form.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "anyOf": [
    {
     "type": "string",
     "maxLength": 2048
    },
    {
     "type": "null"
    }
   ],
   "default": null,
   "description": "Public http(s) URL of the image (at most 10 MB; private, internal and IP-literal hosts are refused); or use image_base64."
  },
  "output": {
   "enum": [
    "base64",
    "url"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "default": "base64",
   "description": "base64 (default): the file comes back inline as base64. url: the file is stored for 24 hours and the reply carries a download link (url, expires_at, bytes, content_type, sha256) instead of the base64, which keeps the file out of your context window."
  },
  "keep_icc": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "default": false,
   "description": "Keep the ICC colour profile (default false: removed too)."
  },
  "auto_orient": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "default": true,
   "description": "Bake a non-1 EXIF orientation into the pixels (re-encode)."
  },
  "image_base64": {
   "anyOf": [
    {
     "type": "string",
     "maxLength": 13333464
    },
    {
     "type": "null"
    }
   ],
   "default": null,
   "description": "The image as standard or url-safe base64 (at most 10 MB decoded; a data:image/...;base64, prefix is fine); or use url."
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "bytes": 146420,
  "input": {
   "bytes": 161713,
   "width": 640,
   "format": "jpeg",
   "frames": 1,
   "height": 480,
   "animated": false,
   "has_alpha": false
  },
  "notes": [],
  "width": 640,
  "format": "jpeg",
  "height": 480,
  "method": "segment",
  "source": {
   "url": "https://python-pillow.org",
   "library": "Pillow",
   "license": "MIT-CMU (HPND)"
  },
  "removed": {
   "gps": true,
   "icc": false,
   "xmp": true,
   "exif": true,
   "iptc": false,
   "other": [],
   "comments": 0,
   "text_chunks": 0,
   "trailing_bytes": 0
  },
  "kept_icc": false,
  "lossless": true,
  "final_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianare/exif-samples/master/jpg/gps/DSCN0010.jpg",
  "operation": "strip-metadata",
  "source_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianare/exif-samples/master/jpg/gps/DSCN0010.jpg",
  "after_bytes": 146420,
  "data_base64": "/9j/2wDFAAUEBAQE... (trimmed: 195,228 base64 characters in the reply)",
  "before_bytes": 161713,
  "content_type": "image/jpeg"
 }
}
```

## More

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