airbyte/docs/integrations/sources/pexels-api.md

Pexels-API

This page contains the setup guide and reference information for the Pexels-API source connector.

Prerequisites

Api key is mandate for this connector to work, It could be generated by a gmail account for free at https://www.pexels.com/api/new/. Just pass the generated API key and optional parameters for establishing the connection.

Setup guide

Step 1: Set up Pexels-API connection

• Generate an API key (Example: 12345)
• Params (If specific info is needed)
• Available params
  • query: Ocean, Tigers, Pears, etc. Default is people
  • orientation: landscape, portrait or square. Default is landscape
  • size: large, medium, small. Default is large
  • color: red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, violet, pink, brown, black, gray, white or any hexidecimal color code.
  • locale: en-US, pt-BR, es-ES, ca-ES, de-DE, it-IT, fr-FR, sv-SE, id-ID, pl-PL, ja-JP, zh-TW, zh-CN, ko-KR, th-TH, nl-NL, hu-HU, vi-VN, cs-CZ, da-DK, fi-FI, uk-UA, el-GR, ro-RO, nb-NO, sk-SK, tr-TR, ru-RU. Default is en-US

Step 2: Set up the Pexels-APIs connector in Airbyte

For Airbyte Cloud:

1. Log into your Airbyte Cloud account.
2. In the left navigation bar, click Sources. In the top-right corner, click +new source.
3. On the Set up the source page, enter the name for the Pexels-API connector and select Pexels-API from the Source type dropdown.
4. Enter your api_key.
5. Enter the params configuration if needed. Supported params are: query, orientation, size, color, locale, collection_id
   video_id, photo_id
6. Click Set up source.

For Airbyte OSS:

1. Navigate to the Airbyte Open Source dashboard.
2. Set the name for your source.
3. Enter your api_key.
4. Enter the params configuration if needed. Supported params are: query, orientation, size, color, locale, collection_id
   video_id, photo_id
5. Click Set up source.

Supported sync modes

The Pexels-API source connector supports the following sync modes:

Feature	Supported?
Full Refresh Sync	Yes
Incremental Sync	No
Replicate Incremental Deletes	No
SSL connection	Yes
Namespaces	No

Supported Streams

• photos_search
• photos_curated
• videos_search
• videos_popular
• collection_featured

API method example

GET https://api.pexels.com/v1/curated?per_page=1

Performance considerations

Pexels-API's [API reference]https://www.pexels.com/api/documentation) has v1 at present and v2 is at development. The connector as default uses v1.

Changelog

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Version	Date	Pull Request	Subject
0.2.41	2025-11-25	69993	Update dependencies
0.2.40	2025-11-18	69635	Update dependencies
0.2.39	2025-10-29	68954	Update dependencies
0.2.38	2025-10-21	68267	Update dependencies
0.2.37	2025-10-14	67825	Update dependencies
0.2.36	2025-10-07	67496	Update dependencies
0.2.35	2025-09-30	66963	Update dependencies
0.2.34	2025-09-23	66413	Update dependencies
0.2.33	2025-09-09	65882	Update dependencies
0.2.32	2025-08-23	65221	Update dependencies
0.2.31	2025-08-09	64735	Update dependencies
0.2.30	2025-08-02	64217	Update dependencies
0.2.29	2025-07-26	63827	Update dependencies
0.2.28	2025-07-19	63420	Update dependencies
0.2.27	2025-07-12	63234	Update dependencies
0.2.26	2025-07-05	62577	Update dependencies
0.2.25	2025-06-28	62363	Update dependencies
0.2.24	2025-06-21	61933	Update dependencies
0.2.23	2025-06-14	60548	Update dependencies
0.2.22	2025-05-10	60094	Update dependencies
0.2.21	2025-05-04	59049	Update dependencies
0.2.20	2025-04-19	58479	Update dependencies
0.2.19	2025-04-12	57851	Update dependencies
0.2.18	2025-04-05	57350	Update dependencies
0.2.17	2025-03-29	56794	Update dependencies
0.2.16	2025-03-22	56201	Update dependencies
0.2.15	2025-03-08	55543	Update dependencies
0.2.14	2025-03-01	55034	Update dependencies
0.2.13	2025-02-23	54572	Update dependencies
0.2.12	2025-02-15	53990	Update dependencies
0.2.11	2025-02-08	53477	Update dependencies
0.2.10	2025-02-01	52990	Update dependencies
0.2.9	2025-01-25	52533	Update dependencies
0.2.8	2025-01-18	51923	Update dependencies
0.2.7	2025-01-11	51374	Update dependencies
0.2.6	2024-12-28	50680	Update dependencies
0.2.5	2024-12-21	50274	Update dependencies
0.2.4	2024-12-14	49708	Update dependencies
0.2.3	2024-12-12	49324	Update dependencies
0.2.2	2024-12-11	47678	Starting with this version, the Docker image is now rootless. Please note that this and future versions will not be compatible with Airbyte versions earlier than 0.64
0.2.1	2024-08-16	44196	Bump source-declarative-manifest version
0.2.0	2024-08-15	44097	Refactor connector to manifest-only format
0.1.14	2024-08-12	43817	Update dependencies
0.1.13	2024-08-03	43057	Update dependencies
0.1.12	2024-07-27	42767	Update dependencies
0.1.11	2024-07-20	42204	Update dependencies
0.1.10	2024-07-15	38930	Make compatible with builder
0.1.9	2024-07-13	41932	Update dependencies
0.1.8	2024-07-10	41349	Update dependencies
0.1.7	2024-07-09	41077	Update dependencies
0.1.6	2024-07-06	40946	Update dependencies
0.1.5	2024-06-25	40490	Update dependencies
0.1.4	2024-06-22	39971	Update dependencies
0.1.3	2024-06-06	39216	[autopull] Upgrade base image to v1.2.2
0.1.2	2024-05-21	38458	[autopull] base image + poetry + up_to_date
0.1.1	2024-05-21	38458	[autopull] base image + poetry + up_to_date
0.1.0	2022-11-02	Init	Initial commit