Giphy
GIPHY is the world's largest library of GIFs, stickers, animated emoji, and Clips (GIFs with sound), with a developer API used by messaging apps, social platforms, productivity tools, ads, and creator products. GIPHY is owned by Meta. Authentication is via API key (Beta or Production tier) and all surfaces share the same envelope (data + meta + pagination) with rich, multi-rendition media payloads.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Giphy the way a machine reads it — 73 machine-readable artifacts across 11 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Giphy scores 63.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Giphy
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Giphy. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 11
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Giphy Analytics API
Pingback and action register endpoints for measuring user engagement.
Giphy Animate API
Programmatic creation of animated text/word GIFs.
Giphy Categories API
Top-level categories and subcategories used to organize GIFs.
Giphy Channels API
Channel discovery and metadata.
Giphy Clips API
GIFs with sound. Access is gated; contact [email protected].
Giphy Emoji API
GIPHY's animated emoji library and per-emoji variations.
Giphy GIFs API
Search, trending, translate, random, and lookup endpoints for animated GIFs.
Giphy Search Discovery API
Tag autocompletion, related search terms, and trending search queries.
Giphy Stickers API
The same surface as GIFs but scoped to transparent-background stickers.
Giphy Upload API
Programmatic upload of GIFs and video assets.
Giphy Utilities API
Identifier generation and other helpers.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
GIPHY API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Giphy Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Giphy Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Giphy Finops
FINOPSFeatures 9
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Search & Trending
Query millions of GIFs/stickers/emoji or fetch curated trending content.
Translate
Convert any phrase to a single contextually relevant GIF or sticker.
Random
Surface a random GIF or sticker, optionally tag-filtered.
Animate
Programmatically generate animated text GIFs.
Clips
Short-form videos with sound, gated behind approval.
Multi-Rendition Assets
Every result includes 20+ pre-encoded renditions (GIF, MP4, WebP) for any surface.
Analytics Pingbacks
Per-result onload/onclick/onsent URLs power view/click/share telemetry.
Programmatic Upload
Upload GIFs or videos to GIPHY (up to 100 MB) via upload.giphy.com.
First-Party SDKs
Native iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, and Web SDKs ship UI-ready pickers.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Giphy Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Giphy API Rules
SPECTRALGiphy API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 9
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
GIPHY Analytics Pingbacks
JSON SCHEMAGIPHY Category
JSON SCHEMAGIPHY Channel
JSON SCHEMAGIPHY Clip
JSON SCHEMAGIPHY GIF
JSON SCHEMAGIPHY Images
JSON SCHEMAGIPHY Meta
JSON SCHEMAGIPHY Pagination
JSON SCHEMAGIPHY User
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JSON Structure 4
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Giphy Channel Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGiphy Clip Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGiphy Gif Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGiphy Images Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 14
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Giphy Get Gif By Id Example
EXAMPLEGiphy Get Random Gif Example
EXAMPLEGiphy List Emoji Example
EXAMPLEGiphy Search Clips Example
EXAMPLEGiphy Search Gifs Example
EXAMPLEGiphy Translate Gif Example
EXAMPLEGiphy Upload Gif Example
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Messaging GIF Picker
Drop-in GIF/sticker picker for chat apps using the GIPHY SDKs.
Story / Post Stickers
Animated stickers and emoji for stories and posts.
Content Discovery
Trending and search-driven discovery for GIF-led products.
Brand & Ad Creative
Branded stickers and channels for marketing campaigns.
Video Editor Integrations
Clips and stickers embedded in mobile video editors.
Productivity / Reactions
Reactions, lightweight expressions in productivity software.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp)
GIPHY is the GIF search backbone across Meta surfaces.
Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams
GIPHY powers in-chat GIF reactions across major chat platforms.
iMessage / Telegram / Signal
Native and third-party stickers via the SDKs.
Twitter / X
GIF picker integration.
Adobe Express / Canva / Mobile Editors
Stickers and clips in creative-tool integrations.
Solutions 3
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Beta Key
Free, rate-limited API access for development.
Production Key
Reviewed access with higher throughput, custom pricing.
Clips Access
Gated access to GIFs-with-sound endpoints.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Giphy — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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