Media · Apify actor

Find images you are allowed to use, with the credit line ready

Search the 100+ million freely licensed files on Wikimedia Commons and get back only pictures you may reuse in posts, product pages, ads, apps and slide decks. Each one comes with its license, author and a ready-to-paste attribution line, plus links to the full-size original and a thumbnail.

$0.001 per imageFailed inputs are freeLaunching soon

Launching soon. Free Image Search is built, tested and priced, and is waiting to go public on the Apify Store. The button below opens its Store page, which will be live shortly.

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What it does

Free Image Search, in short

Only free licenses that allow commercial use: public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA and similar
Full-size original URL, thumbnail URL, file page, width, height and orientation
License, license family, whether attribution or share-alike is required, and the author
A ready-to-paste attribution line in text and HTML
Filters: license (no attribution, or no share-alike), minimum size, orientation and file type, applied before charging
Community quality marks and extra restrictions such as trademarks or personality rights

Who it's for

Built for

Content and SEO teamsA legal featured image for every article, with the credit line to paste under it.

Ecommerce and marketingLandmarks, food, animals, nature and city shots at print resolution.

Apps, games and slide decksMaps, flags, diagrams and icons as SVG.

AI and MLImage datasets with clear license metadata for every file.

Example

Input and output

One dataset row per result, downloadable as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the Apify API.

Input

{
  "queries": ["electric car charging", "sushi platter"],
  "license": "commercialNoShareAlike",
  "minWidth": 1600,
  "orientation": "landscape"
}

From a real cloud run on 2026-09-23, shortened. With the filtered input above, the run returned 97 images, all CC0, public domain or CC BY.

Output (one row)

{
  "query": "sushi platter",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "Sushi Plate in Organic Sushi Prague 4",
  "imageUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Sushi_Plate_in_Organic_Sushi_Prague_4.jpg",
  "width": 4608,
  "height": 3456,
  "license": "CC0",
  "licenseFamily": "public-domain",
  "attributionRequired": false,
  "commercialUseAllowed": true,
  "author": "Mojmir Churavy",
  "attribution": "\"Sushi Plate in Organic Sushi Prague 4\" by Mojmir Churavy, CC0 (...), via Wikimedia Commons",
  "restrictions": []
}

Pricing

Pay per result. Failures are free.

$0.001image returned · $1.00 per 1,000

No subscription, no monthly minimum. Apify platform compute is included in the price; Apify also adds a tiny start fee per run ($0.00005 per GB of run memory).

Example costs
You run	You pay
One search, 20 images	$0.02
1,000 images	$1.00
10,000 images	$10.00

Worked example. You find featured images for 60 blog posts, 5 candidates each, and 4 searches have no match.56 × 5 = 280 images × $0.001 = $0.28
4 empty searches = $0.00

Not charged:

Images removed by your filters (they are applied before charging)
Searches with no match (one free row with the reason)

Follow each image's license: credit the author when attributionRequired is true, and use excludeRestricted for advertising. This is not legal advice. You can set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

FAQ

Questions

Can I really use these commercially?

Wikimedia Commons accepts only free licenses that allow commercial use. Credit the author when attributionRequired is true and share adaptations alike when shareAlike is true, or filter with noAttribution or commercialNoShareAlike. People, logos and buildings can carry extra rights; check restrictions.

What does it find well?

Concrete subjects: animals, plants, food, places, landmarks, vehicles, objects, events, maps, artworks and scientific images. Abstract stock-photo ideas such as “success” return fewer good matches; search for the concrete scene instead.

Can I download the files?

Yes, imageUrl links to the original. To get a ZIP, resize or convert, pass the links to Bulk Image Downloader.

Why not scrape Google Images?

Those pictures belong to someone else, and scraping Google breaks its terms. Every file here comes with a free license, read through the official MediaWiki API.