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Simple integration

The Fernglass API is a plain JSON API that returns every field you need to build a real photo experience — we run fernglass.co on it ourselves.

Official libraries

js py rb 
fernglass.photos.get("k7Rm2QvT9xN");

{
  "id": "k7Rm2QvT9xN",
  "created_at": "2024-03-18T09:12:47-05:00",
  "updated_at": "2025-11-02T14:38:06-05:00",
  "width": 4032,
  "height": 2688,
  "tone": "#8E7B63",
  "saves": 428,
  "author": {
    "id": "u_3Qd8Yr",
    "updated_at": "2025-07-22T11:04:19-05:00",
    "handle": "marisol.reyes",
    "name": "Marisol Reyes",
    "first_name": "Marisol",
    "last_name": "Reyes",
    "studio_handle": "reyes.stills",
    "portfolio_url": "https://fernglass.co/",
    "bio": "Coastal light, mostly.",

No request caps.

Fast, flexible, and free of per-minute throttles. Ship the feature you had in mind, not the one your quota allows.

Read the rate policy

Built for real traffic.

We serve fernglass.co from the same endpoints you get, so the path your app takes is the one we watch every day.

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Ten-minute setup.

Whether you're wiring a weekend prototype or a production gallery, a key and one request is the whole onboarding.

Open the quickstart