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Elevate your platform with an unlimited stock media API
The Storyblocks API gives you the power to differentiate your product and provide your end users with relevant, exciting content
Before Storyblocks
Standing out from the crowd while satisfying your customers is at the top of your mind. Your customers want access to more content, and a lack of affordable, scalable content can prevent you from reaching your full potential. You need an API that will help you become a leader in the marketplace and set industry standards, all while improving your product and growing your customer base.
After Storyblocks
Drive business results with the Storyblocks API. Your end users will gain full access to the entire Storyblocks library of stock video, After Effects templates, DaVinci Resolve templates, stock audio, and stock images, all within your product. Our simple documentation lets you get up and running in no time.
The Storyblocks Difference
What the Storyblocks API does for you
Create a sticky product
Create a product that users love - achieve higher customer acquisition and retention when you integrate with the Storyblocks API. Our API instantly gives your customers access to millions of stock media files to create all kinds of projects and experiment with content.
Easy integration
We know you're busy - so our developers made integration simple. See it for yourself with our API Documentation and get a sense of how the process looks. With Storyblocks API, you get all the benefits of high-quality stock in your product without giving your devs a headache.
No-hassle licensing
Put fears to rest with the most comprehensive licensing in the industry. Our API provides royalty free access to our content so your customers never have to worry about where their work is distributed.
Give your users complete creative freedom to tell any story with access to a massive, growing library of high-resolution stock video, audio, and images.
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Developers can start testing right away
Start testing right away with our easy-to-use API test keys. Just create an account, grab your test keys, and take the Storyblocks API for a test drive.
OUR CUSTOMERS LOVE WHAT WE DO
Moovly
"Because of the flat fee model, we can seamlessly integrate Storyblocks’ stock media into our product offerings so our customers don’t lose valuable time on the individual purchasing process. This makes it very simple for our users."
Geert Coppens, CTO at Moovly
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Storyblocks stock media API?
The Storyblocks API (application programming interface) gives 3rd party platforms streamlined access to our data and content. Our API makes it easy to integrate our massive video, image, and audio libraries into your application. Developers can access our content to build a wide variety of tools and apps.
What kind of platform can use the Storyblocks API?
The possibilities are endless! We provide access to our content through dozens of platforms, including media editing, digital marketing, website building, telestreaming, presentation building, eLearning, and content creation.
What’s included in the free trial?
We offer a free trial of the API for you to test out. The trial provides access to test API keys for our image, video, and audio libraries. Search queries are unlimited, and we include five free downloads for each content type to give you a sense of the full functionality.
Take our API for a test drive here.
What do I get if I decide to purchase an API integration?
When you’re ready, contact us to trade in your test keys for a fully functional integration. You get unlimited (yes, unlimited) search and download calls in whatever media types you choose.
You also get a dedicated customer support agent to answer all your questions and make sure your integration goes smoothly. That’s a real human who sits right next to us at our Arlington, VA headquarters.
How does pricing work?
You can test our API for free, but full functionality comes once you are a Storyblocks API client.
Cost varies depending on the number of libraries you choose to include, and your monthly active users. We currently offer three: video, images, and audio.
Unlimited downloads = unlimited ROI. For an exact quote, contact our sales team today.
How can I browse the content in your libraries?
How does licensing work?
All of Storyblocks’ content is 100% royalty free, licensed for commercial use, and backed by $20,000 in indemnification. We provide your end users with a license to create projects through your platform with our content.
Am I allowed to monetize Storyblocks content?
As an API Partner, there are certain ways you may monetize our content within your platform. Some partners choose to provide our content to their end-customers free of charge, while others choose to include our content as part of a premium product offering.
Note that you cannot distribute, resell, or otherwise provide the source files of our content on a stand-alone basis; the files must be incorporated into a finished project. For more information on proper commercial use of API, please contact our team.
