# Digital Ocean Images API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-images-api/  
**Provider:** Digital Ocean — https://apis.io/providers/digital-ocean/  
**Base URL:** https://api.digitalocean.com/v2  
**Documentation:** https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/api-reference/

Digital Ocean Images API is one of 37 APIs that [Digital Ocean](https://apis.io/providers/digital-ocean/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Image. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

A DigitalOcean [image](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/) can be used to create a Droplet and may come in a number of flavors. Currently, there are five types of images: snapshots, backups, applications, distributions, and custom images. * [Snapshots](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/snapshots/) provide a full copy of an existing Droplet instance taken on demand. * [Backups](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/backups/) are similar to snapshots but are created automatically at regular intervals when enabled for a Droplet. * [Custom images](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/custom-images/) are Linux-based virtual machine images (raw, qcow2, vhdx, vdi, and vmdk formats are supported) that you may upload for use on DigitalOcean. * Distributions are the public Linux distributions that are available to be used as a base to create Droplets. * Applications, or [1-Click Apps](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/marketplace/), are distributions pre-configured with additional software. To interact with images, you will generally send requests to the images endpoint at /v2/images.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/digital-ocean/refs/heads/main/openapi/digital-ocean-images-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/api-reference/
- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/digitalocean/openapi

## Other Digital Ocean APIs (12)

- [Digital Ocean 1-Click Applications API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-1-click-applications-api/)
- [Digital Ocean Account API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-account-api/)
- [Digital Ocean Actions API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-actions-api/)
- [Digital Ocean Apps API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-apps-api/)
- [Digital Ocean Billing API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-billing-api/)
- [Digital Ocean Block Storage Actions API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-block-storage-actions-api/)
- [Digital Ocean Block Storage API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-block-storage-api/)
- [Digital Ocean CDN Endpoints API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-cdn-endpoints-api/)
- [Digital Ocean Certificates API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-certificates-api/)
- [Digital Ocean Container Registry API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-container-registry-api/)
- [Digital Ocean Databases API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-databases-api/)
- [Digital Ocean Domain Records API](https://apis.io/apis/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-domain-records-api/)

## Tags

Image

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