List a VSCO user's gallery

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List the images and videos in a VSCO user's gallery, newest first, with captions, dimensions, camera metadata, presets and hashtags. Pass nextCursor to read the next page.

GET/v1/vsco/user-mediax-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

usernamestringrequiredquery

VSCO username (1 to 50 letters, digits, dots, underscores or hyphens) or a vsco.co profile URL such as https://vsco.co/example-photographer/gallery.

min 1 chars · max 512 chars

Exampleexample-photographer

cursorstringquery

nextCursor from the previous response; omit for the first page.

max 512 chars

limitstringquery

Records per page, 1 to 20; default 20.

Example20

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

usernamestring

VSCO username (1 to 50 letters, digits, dots, underscores or hyphens) or a vsco.co profile URL such as https://vsco.co/example-photographer/gallery.

Gallery records in source order.

up to 20 items

media.idstring

Always included.

media.mediaTypestring

Always included.

media.descriptionstringnullable

Always included.

media.widthintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

media.heightintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

media.imageUrlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

media.permalinkstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

media.isVideoboolean

Always included.

media.captureDatestringnullable

Always included.

media.uploadDatestringnullable

Always included.

media.camera.makestringnullable

Always included.

media.camera.modelstringnullable

Always included.

media.camera.isonumbernullable

Always included.

media.camera.aperturenumbernullable

Always included.

media.camera.shutterSpeedstringnullable

Always included.

media.camera.whiteBalancestringnullable

Always included.

media.camera.flashModestringnullable

Always included.

media.camera.softwarestringnullable

Always included.

media.preset.keystring

Always included.

media.preset.shortNamestringnullable

Always included.

up to 100 items

media.tags.textstring

Always included.

media.tags.slugstring

Always included.

media.video.playbackUrlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

media.video.posterUrlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

media.video.durationSecnumbernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

media.video.hasAudiobooleannullable

Always included.

media.owner.usernamestringnullable

Always included.

media.owner.namestringnullable

Always included.

media.owner.siteIdintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

media.owner.userIdintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

nextCursorstringnullable

Cursor for the next page, or null on the last page.

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/user-media?username=example-photographer&limit=20" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/user-media?username=example-photographer&limit=20",
  {
    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/user-media?username=example-photographer&limit=20",
  {
    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/user-media",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "username": "example-photographer",
        "limit": "20"
    },
    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/user-media?username=example-photographer&limit=20", 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/user-media?username=example-photographer&limit=20"))
            .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/example-photographer/gallery",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 3,
    "responseBytes": 9000,
    "durationMs": 420
  },
  "username": "example-photographer",
  "media": [
    {
      "id": "65a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b",
      "mediaType": "image",
      "description": "Morning light on the coast #film",
      "width": 2048,
      "height": 1365,
      "imageUrl": "https://im.vsco.co/aws-us-west-2/000000/100001/65a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b/example.jpg",
      "permalink": "https://vsco.co/example-photographer/media/65a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b",
      "isVideo": false,
      "captureDate": "2026-10-30T07:12:00.000Z",
      "uploadDate": "2026-11-01T18:40:00.000Z",
      "camera": {
        "make": "FUJIFILM",
        "model": "X-T5",
        "iso": 200,
        "aperture": 5.6,
        "shutterSpeed": "1/250",
        "whiteBalance": "Auto",
        "flashMode": "No Flash",
        "software": "VSCO"
      },
      "preset": {
        "key": "a6",
        "shortName": "A6"
      },
      "tags": [
        {
          "text": "#film",
          "slug": "film"
        }
      ],
      "video": null,
      "owner": {
        "username": "example-photographer",
        "name": "Example Photographer",
        "siteId": 100001,
        "userId": 200001
      }
    }
  ],
  "nextCursor": "Cg4I0LXk1AYQwMme0wEYAA=="
}

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."
  }
}