Getty Images · Authentication Profile

Getty Images Authentication

Authentication

Getty Images secures its APIs with apiKey and oauth2 across 2 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions. OAuth 2.0 is offered via the authorizationCode, clientCredentials, and password flow(s).

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Methods: apiKey, oauth2 Schemes: 2 OAuth flows: authorizationCode, clientCredentials, password API key in: header

Security Schemes

Api-Key apiKey
· in: header (Api-Key)
OAuth2 oauth2
· flows: password, clientCredentials, authorizationCode

Source

Authentication Profile

Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-09-12'
method: searched
source: https://developer.gettyimages.com/docs/authorization/ + https://api.gettyimages.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
  (RFC 8414, HTTP 200) + https://api.gettyimages.com/swagger/v3/swagger.json (live OpenAPI 3.0.4), cross-checked
  against the derived per-spec schemes below
summary:
  types:
  - apiKey
  - oauth2
  api_key_in:
  - header
  oauth2_flows:
  - authorizationCode
  - clientCredentials
  - password
schemes:
- name: Api-Key
  type: apiKey
  in: header
  parameter: Api-Key
  sources:
  - openapi/getty-images-affiliates-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-ai-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-ai-generator-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-artists-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-assets-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-background-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-batches-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-boards-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-change-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-changes-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-channels-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-color-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-comments-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-compositions-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-countries-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-creative-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-current-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-customers-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-downloads-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-editorial-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-events-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-extend-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-files-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-generation-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-generations-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-history-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-image-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-images-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-index-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-influence-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-licensing-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-management-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-name-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-objects-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-products-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-purchased-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-refine-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-registrations-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-removal-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-request-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-search-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-send-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-series-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-set-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-sets-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-similar-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-uploads-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-usage-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-variations-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-videos-api-openapi.yml
- name: OAuth2
  type: oauth2
  flows:
  - flow: password
    tokenUrl: https://api.gettyimages.com/v4/oauth2/token
    scopes: 0
  - flow: clientCredentials
    tokenUrl: https://api.gettyimages.com/v4/oauth2/token
    scopes: 0
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://api.gettyimages.com/v4/oauth2/auth
    tokenUrl: https://api.gettyimages.com/v4/oauth2/token
    scopes: 0
  sources:
  - openapi/getty-images-affiliates-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-ai-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-ai-generator-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-artists-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-assets-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-background-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-batches-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-boards-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-change-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-changes-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-channels-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-color-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-comments-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-compositions-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-countries-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-creative-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-current-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-customers-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-downloads-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-editorial-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-events-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-extend-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-files-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-generation-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-generations-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-history-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-image-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-images-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-index-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-influence-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-licensing-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-management-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-name-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-objects-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-products-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-purchased-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-refine-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-registrations-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-removal-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-request-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-search-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-send-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-series-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-set-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-sets-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-similar-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-uploads-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-usage-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-variations-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/getty-images-videos-api-openapi.yml
docs: https://developer.gettyimages.com/docs/authorization/
live:
  api_key:
    required_on: every request
    location: header
    name: Api-Key
    note: Getty documents the header case-insensitively as api-key; the spec declares it as Api-Key. Omitting it
      returns 401 {"message":"Unauthorized"}.
  bearer:
    location: header
    name: Authorization
    scheme: Bearer
    required_for:
    - downloads
    - fields=downloads|download_sizes|largest_downloads
    - boards
    - purchased assets
    - all Generative AI operations
    challenge: 'WWW-Authenticate: Bearer realm="Download",error="invalid_token",error_description="The access token
      is missing"'
  oauth2:
    issuer: https://authentication.gettyimages.com
    authorization_endpoint: https://authentication.gettyimages.com/oauth2/auth
    token_endpoint: https://authentication.gettyimages.com/oauth2/token
    grant_types_supported:
    - client_credentials
    - authorization_code
    - refresh_token
    token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported:
    - client_secret_basic
    - client_secret_post
    response_types_supported:
    - code
    code_challenge_methods_supported:
    - S256
    pkce: Required for the authorization-code grant; the docs also document the plain method. Public clients (mobile)
      must NOT send client_secret — doing so fails the request.
    access_token_lifetime_seconds: 1800
    scopes: []
    scopes_note: The authorization server declares an EMPTY scopes map on all three flows. Getty authorizes by licence
      agreement, not by scope; there is no scope surface to request or consent to.
    service_documentation: https://developer.gettyimages.com/docs/authorization/
    discovery_document: well-known/getty-images-oauth-authorization-server.json
    guidance: Reuse an access token until it expires. Token requests count against the customer rate limit.
  credential_issuance: Sales-gated. API key and secret are issued by a Getty Images account representative against
    an existing licence agreement. There is no self-service registration and no key rotation endpoint.
  mcp: The MCP server at https://mcp.gettyimages.com/v1 uses the same authorization server; it advertises the same
    RFC 8414 document byte-for-byte.
  scim: 'The SCIM 2.0 surface at https://scim.gettyimages.com/v2 declares authenticationSchemes: [oauthbearertoken]
    and uses the same token endpoint.'
discrepancy_note: 'IMPORTANT: the refined per-tag specs in openapi/ (split from a 2024-era harvest) declare the
  oauth2 token and authorization URLs as https://api.gettyimages.com/v4/oauth2/{token,auth}. The provider LIVE spec
  and the live RFC 8414 metadata both name https://authentication.gettyimages.com/oauth2/{token,auth}. Getty announced
  that migration in its release notes on 2022-05-12 ("the existing endpoints will continue to work for some time,
  but customers are encouraged to migrate"). Treat authentication.gettyimages.com as authoritative; the v4 host
  in the older split specs is stale.'

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