Sample Photos – Free Fake REST API for Practice

This free mock REST API gives you more than one hundred sample photos for testing, learning, prototyping, and practice (no matter which programming languages or technologies you’re using).

Get a List of Photos

In order to obtain a list of photos, you can send a GET request to the following API endpoint:

https://api.slingacademy.com/v1/sample-data/photos

There are 2 optional parameters that can be used for pagination:

• offset: Determines whether to start returning data. The default value is 0
• limit: This limits the number of results (for better performance and speed). The default value is 10

For example, you can send a GET request to the following API endpoint to get 20 photos (starting from the 6th):

https://api.slingacademy.com/v1/sample-data/photos?offset=5&limit=20

The response is in JSON format.

Data Structure

Each photo record comes with the fields below:

• id: The id of the photo
• url: The URL of the photo
• title: The title of the photo (just some meaningless text)
• description: The description of the photo (a long meaningless sentence)
• user: The id of the user who owns the photo

Get a Single Photo by ID

There’s one more thing I almost forgot to say. You can get a single photo by id with the API endpoint below:

https://api.slingacademy.com/v1/sample-data/photos/[photo id]

For example:

// JavaScript
const fetchData = async (url) => {
    const response = await fetch(url)
    const data = await response.json()
    console.log(data);
}

const URL = 'https://api.slingacademy.com/v1/sample-data/photos/1'
fetchData(URL)

The output would be:

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "Photo fetched successfully",
  "photo": {
    "title": "Defense the travel audience hand",
    "user": 28,
    "id": 1,
    "description": "Leader structure safe or black late wife newspaper her pick central forget single likely.",
    "url": "https://api.slingacademy.com/public/sample-photos/1.jpeg"
  }
}

Here’s the photo with the id of 1:

Get the User Associated with a Photo

You can access information about the user by sending a GET request to the following API endpoint:

https://api.slingacademy.com/v1/sample-data/users/[user id]

More details about sample users can be found here: Sample Users – Free Fake API for Practicing & Prototyping.

Hope that our free sample photos can somehow help you. f you see something that needs improvement, leave a comment. Goodbye!