Pexels-API

Availability:

Airbyte Cloud Airbyte OSS PyAirbyte

Support Level:

Marketplace

Connector Version:

0.2.1(Last updated 3 months ago)

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
0.2.1	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