# Cloudinary Search API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cloudinary/search/  
**Provider:** Cloudinary — https://apis.io/providers/cloudinary/  
**Base URL:** https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1  
**Documentation:** https://cloudinary.com/documentation/search_api

Cloudinary Search API is one of 9 APIs that [Cloudinary](https://apis.io/providers/cloudinary/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Asset Discovery, Search, and Visual Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The Search API exposes Lucene-style query expressions across asset metadata, tags, contextual metadata, structured metadata, and AI-derived tags. Supports sorting, aggregation, pagination via cursors, and saved searches. Visual search and similarity search use perceptual hashes and embeddings to find visually similar assets.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://cloudinary.com/documentation/search_api

## Other Cloudinary APIs (8)

- [Cloudinary Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudinary/admin/)
- [Cloudinary Provisioning API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudinary/provisioning/)
- [Cloudinary Permissions API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudinary/permissions/)
- [Cloudinary Transformation URL API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudinary/transformations/)
- [Cloudinary Notifications and Webhooks](https://apis.io/apis/cloudinary/notifications/)
- [Cloudinary Backup API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudinary/cloudinary-backup-api/)
- [Cloudinary Transformation API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudinary/cloudinary-transformation-api/)
- [Cloudinary Upload API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudinary/cloudinary-upload-api/)

## Tags

Asset Discovery, Search, Visual Search

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/cloudinary/search/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/cloudinary/.