# Openverse

> Openverse as searched by Image Asset Server: About 800M openly licensed images in one index: Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, museums and free stock sites. CC0, public domain and every CC licence, stated per image.

- Website: https://openverse.org
- Best for: About 800M openly licensed images in one index: Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, museums and free stock sites. CC0, public domain and every CC licence, stated per image.
- Categories: Nature & landscapes, Animals & wildlife, Cities & streets, Architecture & interiors, People & portraits, Food & drink, Objects & still life, Technology, Transport, Space & astronomy, Science & medicine, Art, History & archives, Backgrounds & textures
- Pricing: free
- Licence: set per image
- How it is searched: api
- Direct download through Image Asset Server: yes
- Restrict a search to it: `https://image.shep.bot/v1/search?q=...&providers=openverse`
- Video listings counted 2026-11-04: 915,519,784, 915,519,784 free

## What it is

Openverse (openverse.org), run by WordPress.org, indexes over 800 million openly licensed images from Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, museums and other sites, with the licence of each.

## Best for

Creative Commons photos from Flickr and smaller collections that aren't searched directly here.

## Licence

Set per image: CC0, public domain mark, CC BY, CC BY-SA and the non-commercial licences. Commercial-safe searches ask Openverse for commercial licences only.

## How Image Asset Server searches it

Through the public Openverse API without a key (anonymous rate limits apply, so results are cached). It re-indexes other sources, so an image also found on Wikimedia Commons is shown once, from Commons.

## Example searches

- [Coffee](https://image.shep.bot/search?q=coffee+cup&providers=openverse)
- [Street photography](https://image.shep.bot/search?q=street+photography&providers=openverse)
- [Dogs](https://image.shep.bot/search?q=dog&category=animals&providers=openverse)
- [Food](https://image.shep.bot/search?q=breakfast&providers=openverse)
- [Architecture](https://image.shep.bot/search?q=modern+architecture&providers=openverse)

Guides: https://image.shep.bot/guides/credit-cc-by-images.md, https://image.shep.bot/guides/free-images-commercial-use.md

## In these collections

- [Hubble and Webb space images: galaxies, nebulae](https://image.shep.bot/collections/hubble-space-images.md): 12 of 36
- [Public-domain Impressionist paintings](https://image.shep.bot/collections/public-domain-impressionist-paintings.md): 11 of 36
- [Free flower photos and plant pictures](https://image.shep.bot/collections/free-flower-photos.md): 7 of 35

## Examples

- [Hubble Spins a Web Into a Giant Red Spider Nebula](https://www.flickr.com/photos/24662369@N07/29835637913) (`openverse:6212f927-6455-42c0-8942-80d8e85e20b9`, CC BY 2.0)
- [In an #odilonredon kind of mood. #lilypads #dreamscape #rêve #impressionism #nénuphars](https://www.flickr.com/photos/71078118@N00/19856128564) (`openverse:a40da463-5b0f-4982-bf83-ba40153052ec`, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
- [Flower new](https://www.flickr.com/photos/29468339@N02/5821423368) (`openverse:f2b230df-ad29-4d19-8ea4-52272c8ddc42`, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
- [Planetary Nebula](https://www.flickr.com/photos/24662369@N07/8804537584) (`openverse:66d9297a-e749-477e-a233-b9b71b8da5e3`, CC BY 2.0)
- [Second Impressionism - Saturday in the Park with Friends](https://www.flickr.com/photos/76154228@N00/182839989) (`openverse:a7d3ba6d-d4b2-43da-8174-8e2cd060498f`, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
- [Flowers at Kew Gardens](https://www.flickr.com/photos/31797858@N00/8648707725) (`openverse:61419a75-885c-4e6b-bb24-28b68fb5411b`, CC BY-SA 2.0)
- [Lagoon Nebula](https://www.flickr.com/photos/24662369@N07/27717718518) (`openverse:f12d2c15-0e9f-437a-bacc-17f20ec7f346`, CC BY 2.0)
- ['Place de la Concorde à Paris' (1880) by Giuseppe De Nittis (Barletta 1846-Saint Germain en Laye 1884) - Courtesy Galleria Bottegantica, Milan, now at Exhibition 'From De Nittis to Gemito. Neapolitain Painters in Paris during the Impressionism' at Zevallo](https://www.flickr.com/photos/70125105@N06/39330812044) (`openverse:4b24e601-818a-4da7-887c-552e58de3cea`, Public domain)
- [Pink flower](https://www.flickr.com/photos/29468339@N02/2860093801) (`openverse:251538b4-8810-4b6d-be29-ce81fce7be8f`, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
- [Hubble's New Eyes: Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302](https://www.flickr.com/photos/35278629@N08/6550937255) (`openverse:1bdcf7ea-e1a0-47e3-96ce-101d06b8afec`, CC BY 2.0)
- [Manguin, the Joy of Colour - A Special Exhibition at the Museum of Impressionism, Giverny - 2017](https://www.flickr.com/photos/22834654@N04/38158897601) (`openverse:693216f2-ef60-4e7b-ad4e-603229bf4e57`, CC BY-NC 2.0)
- [Flower](https://www.flickr.com/photos/119728555@N05/14213723434) (`openverse:1e3c99f8-0f52-4e38-9095-dd04b0508c9f`, CC BY-SA 2.0)

All sources: https://image.shep.bot/docs/sources.md

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Source: https://image.shep.bot/sources/openverse