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Pixelfed API

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Live data for Pixelfed, the federated photo-sharing network — the open Instagram alternative built on ActivityPub — no key, nothing cached. This reads a Pixelfed creator's public profile and photos directly. The account endpoint resolves a @username (optionally @user@instance) to its profile: display name, bio, follower and following counts, total posts, avatar and join date — Pixelfed's founder @dansup resolves to a profile with tens of thousands of followers. The posts endpoint returns a creator's most recent photo posts from their public feed, each with the image URL, the caption, the hashtags and a link to the post. The hashtags endpoint summarises what a creator posts about — their most-used hashtags and recent posting activity. Point it at anyone on pixelfed.social, or with user@instance at anyone across the Pixelfed fediverse. This is the creator-profile-and-photo layer for any social, photography, marketing or fediverse app. Live from Pixelfed, nothing stored. Distinct from fediverse-statistics and microblog APIs — this is Pixelfed creator profiles and their photos. 4 endpoints.

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/api/pixelfed-api/openapi.json
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Free

  • 14,000 calls / month
  • 3 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 14,000 calls/month
  • 3 req/sec
  • Profiles, photos & hashtags
  • No credit card
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Starter

€6.50 /month

  • 165,000 calls / month
  • 8 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 165,000 calls/month
  • 8 req/sec
  • Followers, posts, captions & tags
  • Email support
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Pro

€16.50 /month

  • 710,000 calls / month
  • 15 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 710,000 calls/month
  • 15 req/sec
  • Social, photography & marketing pipelines
  • Priority support
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Scale

€39.50 /month

  • 3,550,000 calls / month
  • 30 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 3,550,000 calls/month
  • 30 req/sec
  • Fediverse-photo scale
  • Dedicated SLA
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PieFed API

Live community, post and user data from PieFed, an open-source threadiverse platform — a federated Reddit-style link aggregator in the fediverse — via the flagship piefed.social instance's public API. PieFed is organised into communities people subscribe to, where they post links and discussions that others up- and down-vote. List the platform's communities with their subscriber, post and comment counts. Get the feed of posts with each one's title, link, score, vote and comment counts, author and community. Read a single post in full. Read a member's profile with their post and comment counts and join date. Live, no key, nothing stored; to keep results work-safe, NSFW posts and communities are filtered out of the feeds. Distinct from Lemmy, Mbin and other aggregator APIs — this is the PieFed platform, its communities, posts and members. Perfect for social-reader, fediverse and community apps.

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Mobilizon API

Live data for Mobilizon, the federated events platform — the open-source ActivityPub alternative to Meetup, Eventbrite and Facebook Events — served straight from Mobilizon's public GraphQL API, no key, nothing cached. The events endpoint searches upcoming public events by keyword and returns each event's title, start and end time, the place (or whether it is online), the organiser, the number of people going, the tags and a link. The event endpoint returns one event in full, including its description. The groups endpoint searches the organising groups and returns each group's name, handle, instance domain, summary and member count. It reads the flagship mobilizon.fr instance, which federates events from across the Mobilizon network. This is the events-and-organisers layer for any community, calendar, social or local app — what is happening, where, and who is organising it. Live from Mobilizon, nothing stored. Distinct from corporate-events and centralised-platform APIs — this is federated grassroots events. 4 endpoints.

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Fediverse Statistics API

Live Fediverse statistics as an API — a read on the size and shape of the decentralised social web. The fediverse is the network of interoperable social platforms — Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, Lemmy, PeerTube and dozens more — and this returns the network-wide totals (instances, users, posts and monthly active users), the breakdown by software (how many instances and users each platform runs, with its license, website and source repository, and the hosting providers it concentrates on), and the largest servers ranked by user count, with an optional filter to a single platform. The meta-social layer: not one platform's posts, but the whole federated network as clean JSON, served live from FediDB. Distinct from the single-platform Mastodon, Misskey, Mbin and Lemmy APIs — this is the cross-fediverse statistics layer for social, research and dashboard apps.

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Micro.blog Discover API

Live Micro.blog Discover timeline as an API — a window into what the Micro.blog community is sharing right now. Micro.blog is an independent, ad-free microblogging and short-form blogging platform, and its Discover feed is a human-curated stream of the best recent posts, also sliced into curated topics: books, photos, music, art, movies, podcasts, travel and writing. For each post this returns the author (name, username, profile URL and avatar), the post text and HTML, its permalink and publish time, and flags such as whether it is a conversation or a link-post. Pull the main Discover stream, a single topic, or the list of curated topics. A clean discovery layer for social readers, dashboards and content apps. Live, no key. Distinct from Mastodon, Misskey and Mbin APIs (other platforms) and from book or reading APIs — this is Micro.blog's own curated discovery feed.

api.oanor.com/microblog-api

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about pricing, quotas, and integration.

How do I get an API key for Pixelfed API?
Sign up for free at oanor.com, generate an API key from the developer dashboard, and call Pixelfed API with the x-oanor-key header. No credit card needed for the free tier.
What's the rate limit for Pixelfed API?
Free tier allows 1 request per second. Paid plans scale up to 50 requests per second on the Mega tier. Hard limits return HTTP 429 above the quota — no surprise overage charges.
How much does Pixelfed API cost?
Pixelfed API has a free tier with 100 calls / month. Paid plans start at €6.50 / month with higher quotas and faster rate limits.
Can I cancel my subscription anytime?
Yes. Plans are billed monthly and you can cancel anytime from your billing dashboard. No long-term contracts and no cancellation fee.
Is Pixelfed API GDPR-compliant?
All requests to Pixelfed API go through our EU-based gateway. Your upstream API key never leaves our server and no personal data is shared with the upstream provider beyond the request you send.

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curl https://api.oanor.com/pixelfed-api/SOME_PATH \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
const res = await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/pixelfed-api/SOME_PATH", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
const data = await res.json();
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/pixelfed-api/SOME_PATH");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
r = requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/pixelfed-api/SOME_PATH",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."},
)
print(r.json())

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