Lorem Picsum

The Lorem Ipsum for photos.

Easy to use, stylish placeholders

Just add your desired image size (width & height) after our URL, and you'll get a
random image.

https://picsum.photos/200/300

To get a square image, just add the size.

https://picsum.photos/200

Specific Image
Get a speci c image by adding /id/{image} to the start of the url.

https://picsum.photos/id/237/200/300

You can nd a list of all the images here.

Static Random Image

Get the same random image every time based on a seed, by adding
/seed/{seed} to the start of the url.

https://picsum.photos/seed/picsum/200/300

Grayscale
Get a grayscale image by appending ?grayscale to the end of the url.

https://picsum.photos/200/300?grayscale

Blur
Get a blurred image by appending ?blur to the end of the url.

https://picsum.photos/200/300/?blur

You can adjust the amount of blur by providing a number between 1

and 10 .

https://picsum.photos/200/300/?blur=2

Advanced Usage
You may combine any of the options above.
For example, to get a speci c image that is grayscale and blurred.

https://picsum.photos/id/870/200/300?grayscale&blur=2

To request multiple images of the same size in your browser, add the
random query param to prevent the images from being cached:

<img src="https://picsum.photos/200/300?random=1">
<img src="https://picsum.photos/200/300?random=2">

If you need a le ending, you can add .jpg to the end of the url.

https://picsum.photos/200/300.jpg

To get an image in the WebP format, you can add .webp to the end of
the url.

https://picsum.photos/200/300.webp

List Images
[
{ Get a list of images by using the /v2/list endpoint.
"id": "0",
"author": "Alejandro Escamilla",
"width": 5616, https://picsum.photos/v2/list
"height": 3744,
"url": "https://unsplash.com/...",
"download_url": "https://picsum.photos/..."
} The API will return 30 items per page by default.
]
To request another page, use the ?page parameter.
To change the amount of items per page, use the ?limit parameter.

https://picsum.photos/v2/list?page=2&limit=100

The Link header includes pagination information about the

next/previous pages

Image Details
{
Get information about a speci c image by using the the /id/{id}/info "id": "0",
"author": "Alejandro Escamilla",
endpoint. "width": 5616,
"height": 3744,
"url": "https://unsplash.com/...",
https://picsum.photos/id/0/info
"download_url": "https://picsum.photos/..."
}

You can nd out the ID of an image by looking at the Picsum-ID

header, or the User Comment eld in the EXIF metadata.

Created by David Marby & Nijiko Yonskai

Source
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