Getty Images API 3.0

Seamlessly integrate Getty Images' expansive digital content, powerful search technology, and rich metadata into your publishing tools, products and services!

• Search for images from our extensive creative and editorial catalogs.
• Get image metadata.
• Download files using your Getty Images products (e.g., Editorial subscriptions, Easy Access, Thinkstock Subscriptions, and Image Packs).

This page describes the Getty Images API version 3.0. Documentation for prior versions is also available.

Quick links

• Registering for an API Key
• API Overview
• Example Workflows
• OAuth2 Access Tokens
• Interactive Documentation
• Release Notes
• Getty Images API SDKs

Example Workflows

• OAuth2
  • Resource Owner
  • Client Credential
  • Implicit Grant
• Search Quick Start
• Image Download

SDKs

SDKs for our API are available for multiple languages

The SDKs for these languages are up-to-date with support for all major functionality for both images and videos:

• C#
• PHP

The SDKs for these languages support basic functionality for searching images and are a work in progress; feel free to enhance them and submit pull requests:

• Java
• Node.js
• Objective-C (iOS and OS X)
• Ruby