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Adobe Lightroom

APIs for Adobe Lightroom cloud services, enabling developers to access and manipulate photos, albums, and metadata programmatically. The Lightroom APIs are also available as part of Adobe Firefly Services for AI-powered image editing operations such as auto tone, auto straighten, and preset application.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Adobe Lightroom the way a machine reads it — 154 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 — Adobe Lightroom scores 62.5/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 62.5/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Adobe Lightroom

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Adobe Lightroom. 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 12

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.

Adobe Lightroom Album Assets API

Manage assets within albums

Adobe Lightroom Albums API

CRUD operations on albums

Adobe Lightroom Assets API

CRUD operations on photo and video assets

Adobe Lightroom Auto Straighten API

Automatically detect and correct image horizon alignment

Adobe Lightroom Auto Tone API

Automatically adjust tonal values for optimal exposure and contrast

Adobe Lightroom Catalog API

Catalog metadata and configuration

Adobe Lightroom Edit Image API

Apply custom Lightroom edit settings to images

Adobe Lightroom Health API

API health and availability checks

Adobe Lightroom Master API

Upload and manage original master files

Adobe Lightroom Presets API

Apply Lightroom presets (XMP develop settings) to images

Adobe Lightroom Renditions API

Retrieve generated renditions (previews and thumbnails)

Adobe Lightroom XMP API

Read and write external develop XMP sidecar files

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Open Collections 5

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).

Pricing 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.

Rate 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.

Lightroom Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Semantic Vocabularies 6

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.

Lightroom Albums Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Lightroom Assets Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Lightroom Catalog Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Lightroom Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Lightroom Firefly Services Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Lightroom Services Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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.

Adobe Lightroom API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Adobe Lightroom API Rules

17 rules · 8 errors · 9 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 43

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.

Lightroom Album

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlbumAssetsRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlbumCreateRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlbumPayload

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlbumResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Album

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlbumsListResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AssetsListResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Links

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Lightroom Asset

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AssetCreateRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AssetPayload

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AssetResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Asset

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AssetsListResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Links

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Lightroom Catalog

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApplyPresetsRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AutoStraightenRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AutoToneRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EditImageRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StorageInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StorageOutput

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Lightroom Rendition

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlbumAssetsRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlbumCreateRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlbumResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Album

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlbumsListResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AssetResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AssetRevisionRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Asset

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AssetsListResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CatalogResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HealthResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Links

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 39

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.

Lightroom Albums Album Payload Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Albums Album Response Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Albums Album Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Albums Error Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Albums Links Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Assets Asset Payload Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Assets Asset Response Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Assets Asset Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Assets Error Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Assets Links Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Catalog Error Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Services Album Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Services Asset Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lightroom Services Links Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 39

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.

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Security Posture 3

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.

Lightroom Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Lightroom Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Lightroom Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Lightroom Scopes

3 scopes · authorizationCode/clientCredentials

3 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Lightroom Agentic Access

37 operations · 17 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

37 operations · 17 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Adobe Lightroom — 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 2

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

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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