Unsplash Source — A simple API for embedding hi-res Unsplash photos.

Hey everyone. I'm Mikael, one of the founders of Unsplash. 2.5 years ago, we had a whale of a time trying to find good photography for our website (http://crew.co). So we teamed up with a local photographer to take a handful of photos. We only used one, so rather than let the extras go to waste, we setup a $19 tumblr theme (https://www.tumblr.com/theme/30257), named the site Unsplash, and gave the rest of the images away for free. We had no idea what was going to happen. We were just hoping to help out as many people as we could who might be having the same problem finding good photography as us. In the first day, Unsplash went to #1 on HackerNews (http://365.unsplash.com) and had 20,000 downloads. We couldn’t believe it. Since then, over 30,000+ photos have generously contributed by 7,000+ photographers and downloaded 50 million+ times. We never expected Unsplash to become this and we owe it to the people who have given without expecting anything in return. What’s so awesome to see is how one photo can inspire all sorts of creative work, from blog posts to original artwork to album covers. So this summer we worked on an official API for Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/developers) to help make images even more accessible for makers. Soon after, we started working on trying to make this official API even simpler, which is how Unsplash Source was born. With Unsplash Source, you can easily pull hi-res images from Unsplash into a product you might be building. You can filter by categories (like buildings, food, people), photographers, or featured photos to find the right look. Over (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...), recently did a slick integration into their app. Here’s some more work made with Unsplash photos (http://madewith.unsplash.com). We’re pumped to see what cool stuff might be built next. If you make something with Unsplash photos, you can send a shoutout on Twitter using #unsplash Thanks for checking this out and have a good rest of your day.

We really can't say enough good things about Unsplash. It was very easy to integrate it into Over and our users are going nuts about it. Seriously well done friends. Thank you so so much for providing this!

Unsplash is easily one of the most awesome and innovative photo services on the web. It's been great watching it grow from a blog, right through to the goto source of amazing images and super smart API. It's also lead to some of my photos being displayed in Apple stores so I'm personally super thankful! Check out my profile here - https://unsplash.com/robbye91

Nice one @mikaelcho! What's the difference between this and http://unsplash.it? (beside category and user filters)

Huge fan of Unsplash. This just makes it even more awesome. Great work guys 👌

This is AWESOME.

This is amazing! Unsplash has been a fantastic source, and I'm sure I'll find a good use for the API some day. One question, though. I'm not quite sure I understand the parameters yet. You have the following example on the front page: https://source.unsplash.com/cate... The first time I tried it, it returned this rather tall portrait image: https://images.unsplash.com/phot... That's kind of confusing to me. The parameters would imply an image of 1600x900, or close to that range, or at least something in landscape orientation. I guess it's technically correct, since it stays *within* the dimensions, but perhaps some fine-tuning is in order? Either way, thanks so much for building this!

This is really cool guys. Well done! Trying to think of ways to incorporate it into some of my test sites.

I like how simple but powerful the API is, this will definitely come in handy one day! I just love Unsplash. I've been using it ever since it was just a simple Tumblr blog. It's amazing to see how it has grown out to an absolutely outstanding resource for free photography. Unsplash inspired me to create Wonderwall (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...), a wallpaper app respecting photographers credit. Every day one handpicked photo is added to the collection, guaranteeing the highest quality only. I search all over the web to find stunning free photography, but my favorite source is definitely Unsplash. I'd like to use this opportunity to thank the whole team because without them I would most likely not have started Wonderwall!

As a big fan of Unplash, I cannot wait to have it integrated into Gravit. Easily having access to hundreds of free stock photos in a design application would make workflow 10x easier. Thanks for making it your api available to the public.

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HECK YEAH!

Similar to http://lorempixel.com/ ;)

Would love to use this for our app "Typorama". We are already using Pixabay as the stock image search engine and I think it already includes Unsplash images. What would be the advantage of using Unsplash API directly?