AccessAfter is an API that allow you to incorporate our image collection into your application or web service.
Although the images and textures themselves are free to be used in commercial or non-commercial projects this service gives you an affordable way to directly access to the whole collection without the need to manually select and download the images to incorporate into your project.

For commercial or large volume users of this API is available for an affordable rate as stated below. This service is free of charge for non commercial low volume users. However for non commercial use a link to imageafter.com is and needs to be visible below each image.


You API usage can be monitored in our APIUser section. Just log in with your username and API key.

Please contact us for your API key to get started at [email protected]. Please Also let use how you are planning to use the API.

Use	Data Transfer	Requests
Commercial	€1 per 0.5GB	€0.01 per 1000 requests
Non Commercial	Free (with link to imageafter)	Free (with link to imageafter)

This API can be used for commercial and non commercial projects that do not directly compete with imageafter.com. Contact us at [email protected] when in doubt.

The Imageafter API can be called using a GET request on the url http://www.imageafter.com/api.php. Results can be displayed in XML or Json notation

Currently there are two result types: a list of images based on a search query, or an image itself (binary data)

1. Search for images

Parameters:

Name	Value	Default
search	one or more keywords to search for	(empty = show all images)
start	offset to show results from	0
limit	number of results to show	50
sort	sorting of results [name asc|name desc|hits asc|hits desc|size asc|size desc]
random	whether or not to show random images (0 or 1) (n.b. this overrides the value of 'sort' if set)	0
user	your API username
key	your API key
json	set to '1' to show results as Json notation	(empty = show results in XML)

Example: http://www.imageafter.com/api.php?search=cat&start=10&user=username&key=key

Result:

<xml>
	<query>cat</query>
	<start>0</start>
	<total>129</total>
	<images>
		<image>
			<small>http://www.imageafter.com/api.php?image=442&type=small&user=username&key=key</small>
			<medium>http://www.imageafter.com/api.php?image=442&type=medium&user=username&key=key</medium>
			<large>http://www.imageafter.com/api.php?image=442&user=username&key=key</large>
			<width>1776</width>
			<height>1180</height>
			<size_kb>363141</size_kb>
		</image>
		<image>
			<small>http://www.imageafter.com/api.php?image=2575&type=small&user=username&key=key</small>
			<medium>http://www.imageafter.com/api.php?image=2575&type=medium&user=username&key=key</medium>
			<large>http://www.imageafter.com/api.php?image=2575&user=username&key=key</large>
			<width>1600</width>
			<height>862</height>
			<size_kb>184997</size_kb>
		</image>
	</images>
</xml>
				

2. Display an image (binary data)

Parameters:

Name	Value	Default
image	ID of image
type	either small, medium or not set (=large)	(not set = large)
user	your API username
key	your API key

Example: http://www.imageafter.com/api.php?image=2575&type=small&user=username&key=key

Result: Binary data displaying small thumbnail of image