NASA Image and Video Library API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: NASA Image and Video Library API
  description: |
    API for the NASA Image and Video Library at images.nasa.gov. Supports searching the library, retrieving
    asset manifests, metadata, captions, and resolving rich-text URLs.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: NASA Image and Video Library
    url: https://images.nasa.gov/docs/images.nasa.gov_api_docs.pdf
  license:
    name: US Government Work (Public Domain)
servers:
- url: https://images-api.nasa.gov
paths:
  /search:
    get:
      summary: Search NASA Image and Video Library
      operationId: searchLibrary
      tags:
      - Search
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        description: Free text search terms.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: center
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: description
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: description_508
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: keywords
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: location
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: media_type
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - image
          - video
          - audio
      - name: nasa_id
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: page
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: photographer
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: secondary_creator
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: title
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: year_start
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: year_end
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Paged collection of matching media assets.
  /asset/{nasa_id}:
    get:
      summary: Get Media Asset Manifest
      operationId: getAsset
      tags:
      - Asset
      parameters:
      - name: nasa_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of asset file URLs (image variants, video renditions, captions).
  /metadata/{nasa_id}:
    get:
      summary: Get Media Asset Metadata
      operationId: getMetadata
      tags:
      - Asset
      parameters:
      - name: nasa_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Pointer to JSON metadata location for the asset.
  /captions/{nasa_id}:
    get:
      summary: Get Video Asset Captions Location
      operationId: getCaptions
      tags:
      - Asset
      parameters:
      - name: nasa_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Pointer to captions file (SRT/VTT) location for video assets.
  /album/{album_name}:
    get:
      summary: Get Album Manifest
      operationId: getAlbum
      tags:
      - Album
      parameters:
      - name: album_name
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: page
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Album contents.