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.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Adobe Lightroom the way a machine reads it — 179 machine-readable artifacts across 5 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 52.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 30/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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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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Postman Collections 12
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
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Open Collections 18
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums Album Assets API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Album Assets Albums API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums Album Assets API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Assets API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums Album Assets Auto Tone API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums Album Assets Catalog API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Catalog API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums Album Assets Edit Image API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom API (Firefly Services)
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums Album Assets Health API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums Album Assets Master API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums Album Assets Presets API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums Album Assets Renditions API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Services API
OPEN COLLECTIONAdobe Lightroom Lightroom Albums Album Assets XMP API
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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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
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
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.
Lightroom Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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
JSON-LDLightroom Assets Context
JSON-LDLightroom Catalog Context
JSON-LDLightroom Context
JSON-LDLightroom Services 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.
Adobe Lightroom API Rules
SPECTRALAdobe Lightroom API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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
JSON SCHEMAAlbumAssetsRequest
JSON SCHEMAAlbumCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAlbumPayload
JSON SCHEMAAlbumResponse
JSON SCHEMAAlbum
JSON SCHEMAAlbumsListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAssetsListResponse
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMALinks
JSON SCHEMALightroom Asset
JSON SCHEMAAssetCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAssetPayload
JSON SCHEMAAssetResponse
JSON SCHEMAAsset
JSON SCHEMAAssetsListResponse
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMALinks
JSON SCHEMACatalogResponse
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMALightroom Catalog
JSON SCHEMAApplyPresetsRequest
JSON SCHEMAAutoStraightenRequest
JSON SCHEMAAutoToneRequest
JSON SCHEMAEditImageRequest
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMAJobResponse
JSON SCHEMAStorageInput
JSON SCHEMAStorageOutput
JSON SCHEMALightroom Rendition
JSON SCHEMAAlbumAssetsRequest
JSON SCHEMAAlbumCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAlbumResponse
JSON SCHEMAAlbum
JSON SCHEMAAlbumsListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAssetResponse
JSON SCHEMAAssetRevisionRequest
JSON SCHEMAAsset
JSON SCHEMAAssetsListResponse
JSON SCHEMACatalogResponse
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMAHealthResponse
JSON SCHEMALinks
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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 Assets Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Albums Album Create Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Albums Album Payload Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Albums Album Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Albums Album Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Albums Albums List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Albums Assets List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Albums Error Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Albums Links Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Assets Asset Create Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Assets Asset Payload Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Assets Asset Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Assets Asset Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Assets Assets List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Assets Error Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Assets Links Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Catalog Catalog Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Catalog Error Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Firefly Services Auto Tone Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Firefly Services Edit Image Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Firefly Services Error Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Firefly Services Job Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Firefly Services Storage Input Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Firefly Services Storage Output Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Album Assets Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Album Create Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Album Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Album Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Albums List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Asset Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Asset Revision Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Asset Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Assets List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Catalog Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Error Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Health Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURELightroom Services Links 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.
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.
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.
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 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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