Search VSCO images

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Search public VSCO images by keyword and return each image's caption, dimensions, image URL, permalink and photographer.

GET/v1/vsco/searchx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

querystringrequiredquery

Search keywords, 1 to 100 characters.

max 100 chars

Examplesunset

pagestringquery

Result page, 1 to 1,000; defaults to 1.

limitstringquery

Results per page, 1 to 30; default 30.

Example30

Response fields

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage.

statusenum

success or partial for usable data; failed or challenged for a failure.

one of: success, partial

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

sourceUrlstring

Public vsco.co page the data describes.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Returned-page coverage and mapping warnings.

coverage.sourcestring

VSCO's public web API.

coverage.completeboolean

Whether every supported field on this page was mapped without a reported omission.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Named warnings: unknown_media_type, unknown_block_type, invalid_item, record_limit, block_limit, total_unavailable (no collection or search count) or pagination_unavailable (no next-page signal or cursor).

Retrieval attempt, source byte and timing measurements.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Upstream request attempts, including the token page read and any retry.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Decoded source bytes read during this request.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Elapsed operation time in milliseconds.

≥ 0

querystring

Search keywords, 1 to 100 characters.

Matching images in relevance order.

up to 30 items

results.idstring

Always included.

results.descriptionstringnullable

Always included.

results.widthintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

results.heightintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

results.imageUrlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

results.permalinkstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

Always included.

results.owner.usernamestringnullable

Always included.

results.owner.namestringnullable

Always included.

results.owner.siteIdintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

results.owner.userIdintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

pageinteger

Result page, 1 to 1,000; defaults to 1.

1 – 1000

totalintegernullable

Total matches reported by VSCO, or null.

≥ 0

hasMoreboolean

Whether a later page exists.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with named media-type, block-type, invalid-item, record-limit, total or pagination warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed, unsafe or unsupported parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
404	`not_found`	The requested VSCO profile or image was not found.
422	`restricted_page`	VSCO refused anonymous access to the requested resource.
422	`unsupported_page`	The VSCO response structure or identity could not be mapped.
502	`upstream_challenged`	VSCO challenged retrieval.
502	`upstream_rate_limited`	VSCO rate-limited retrieval.
502	`upstream_error`	Source retrieval did not complete.
502	`response_too_large`	Decoded source bytes exceeded the request limit.
502	`unsafe_redirect`	VSCO answered with a redirect, which is never followed.
502	`request_limit`	The upstream request budget was exhausted.
503	`busy`	Worker request or queue capacity was exceeded.
504	`timeout`	The operation deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/search?query=sunset&limit=30" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/search?query=sunset&limit=30",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/search?query=sunset&limit=30",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`VSCO request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/search",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "query": "sunset",
        "limit": "30"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/search?query=sunset&limit=30", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/search?query=sunset&limit=30"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://vsco.co/search/images?query=sunset",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 2,
    "responseBytes": 9000,
    "durationMs": 420
  },
  "query": "sunset",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "65a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b",
      "description": "Sunset over the bay #sunset",
      "width": 2048,
      "height": 1536,
      "imageUrl": "https://im.vsco.co/aws-us-west-2/000000/100001/65a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b/example.jpg",
      "permalink": "https://vsco.co/example-photographer/media/65a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b",
      "owner": {
        "username": "example-photographer",
        "name": "Example Photographer",
        "siteId": 100001,
        "userId": 200001
      }
    }
  ],
  "page": 1,
  "total": 77027,
  "hasMore": true
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed, unsafe or unsupported parameters.

{
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}