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icons8 · Media

Media No Auth Free & Open media Sandbox

# Icons8 API Icons8 API allows us to search and obtain [our icons](https://icons8.com/web-app). You're welcome to use our icons to extend the functionality of your web and mobile applications, website templates, and even tattoos. ![Tattoos](https://cdn.rawgit.com/icons8/api-docs/cff6fdf0/tattoos.svg) ## Usage Examples Some examples of what you can do with our icons: * **Template customization.** This way, [Canva](https://www.canva.com/) uses our icons to customize their layouts. * **Graph

Authentication

No authentication requiredFree to use with no key needed.

Sample Requests

GET Totals

Totals

https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/total?since={since}

Hover any highlighted part to learn what it does

curl -X GET "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/total?since={since}"

import requests
response = requests.get(
    "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/total?since={since}",
)
print(response.json())

const url = 'https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/total?since={since}';

const response = await fetch(url); 
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	targetURL := "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/total?since={since}"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", targetURL, nil)

	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, _ := client.Do(req)
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/total?since={since}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == "https"

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

res = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(res.body)

<?php
$url = "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/total?since={since}";
$opts = ["http" => [
    "method" => "GET",
]];
$ctx = stream_context_create($opts);
$res = file_get_contents($url, false, $ctx);
print_r(json_decode($res, true));

GET Categories

The operation will not return the categories that have less than 10 icons. We need it to test the categories without showing garbage on the production website.

https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/categories?platform={platform}&language={language}

Hover any highlighted part to learn what it does

curl -X GET "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/categories?platform={platform}&language={language}"

import requests
response = requests.get(
    "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/categories?platform={platform}&language={language}",
)
print(response.json())

const url = 'https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/categories?platform={platform}&language={language}';

const response = await fetch(url); 
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	targetURL := "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/categories?platform={platform}&language={language}"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", targetURL, nil)

	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, _ := client.Do(req)
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/categories?platform={platform}&language={language}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == "https"

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

res = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(res.body)

<?php
$url = "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/iconsets/v3/categories?platform={platform}&language={language}";
$opts = ["http" => [
    "method" => "GET",
]];
$ctx = stream_context_create($opts);
$res = file_get_contents($url, false, $ctx);
print_r(json_decode($res, true));

POST From a Collection

From a Collection

https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/task/web-font/collection

Hover any highlighted part to learn what it does

curl -X POST "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/task/web-font/collection"

import requests
response = requests.post(
    "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/task/web-font/collection",
)
print(response.json())

const url = 'https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/task/web-font/collection';

const response = await fetch(url, {
  method: 'POST',
}); 
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	targetURL := "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/task/web-font/collection"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", targetURL, nil)

	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, _ := client.Do(req)
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/task/web-font/collection")

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == "https"

req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)

res = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(res.body)

<?php
$url = "https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/icons8.com/1.0.0/api/task/web-font/collection";
$opts = ["http" => [
    "method" => "POST",
]];
$ctx = stream_context_create($opts);
$res = file_get_contents($url, false, $ctx);
print_r(json_decode($res, true));

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Use a [New Version](https://icons8.github.io/icons8-docs/) Instead is a Media API. Developers commonly use media APIs for:

storing and delivering images, video, and audio
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adding video streaming and playback to your app
automating content tagging and metadata extraction

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