# Phraseanet

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/phraseanet/  
**Website:** https://www.phraseanet.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

Phraseanet is an open-source (GPL-v3) Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform built in PHP and developed by Alchemy. It centralizes photos, videos, documents, and other media with metadata management (Dublin Core mapping), Elasticsearch-powered search, multi-resolution sub-definitions, thesaurus, rights administration, stories, baskets, and feeds. Phraseanet exposes a documented RESTful API (v1 and v2, with a newer v3 published on SwaggerHub) secured with OAuth2, covering records, databoxes and collections, metadata, search, stories, baskets, and feeds. Because Phraseanet is self-hosted, there is no single public shared API endpoint - the API runs on each organization's own Phraseanet instance. Alchemy provides commercial hosting, setup, training, and support around the open-source core.

## Kin Score — 35.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 46.8 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **Phraseanet Account API** — The authenticated user (me) and access rights.
- **Phraseanet Baskets API** — User-curated working sets of records.
- **Phraseanet Databoxes API** — Databoxes, their collections, status structure, and metadata structure.
- **Phraseanet Feeds API** — Published feeds and their entries.
- **Phraseanet Metadata API** — Record captions, metadata values, and status flags.
- **Phraseanet Quarantine API** — Items awaiting validation before entering a collection.
- **Phraseanet Records API** — Individual media records (assets) within a databox.
- **Phraseanet Search API** — Elasticsearch-backed search across records and stories.
- **Phraseanet Stories API** — Records that group other records.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Phraseanet Agentic Access** — 34 operations · 14 acting

## Security (2)

- **Phraseanet Authentication** — apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Phraseanet Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Phraseanet Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Digital Asset Management, DAM, Media, Metadata, Open-Source, Search

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/phraseanet/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.