Wikimedia Commons by Wikimedia Foundation

Free media repository of photos, SVGs, video and audio under per-file free licenses, with the MediaWiki API.

Open and public-domain media Library

Website License API docs

Price

Free

Free. Wikimedia Enterprise has free and paid tiers for...

Commercial use

With conditions

Per file (usually CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or public domain)

Credit the author

Per item

Credit depends on the item

Agent access

Public API

no key needed

Rules for your agent

- Wikimedia Commons (Open and public-domain media). Free media repository of photos, SVGs, video and audio under per-file free licenses, with the MediaWiki API. Price: free; commercial use with conditions; credit depends on the item; ship inside your app with conditions.
  Connect: API docs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Imageinfo. Limits: Unidentified 10 req/min; bots with a compliant User-Agent 200 req/min; established editors 2,000 req/min; keep 3 or fewer concurrent requests.
  Rule: Send a descriptive User-Agent and make requests serially with maxlag.
  Rule: Credit the creator (not the uploader), name the license and link to it.
  Rule: License substantially new works as a ShareAlike file's license requires.
  Rule: Check trademark, personality and privacy rights; images of people may need consent for commercial use.
  License: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia (checked 2026-10-10; details: https://agentgid.com/assets/wikimedia-commons/)

Paste it into your prompt or AGENTS.md. It is built from the license and API terms below.

License

License	Per file (usually CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or public domain)
Commercial use	Commercial use with conditions
Credit	Credit depends on the item
Inside your app or game	Ship inside your app with conditions
Monetized YouTube	Monetized YouTube with conditions
AI training	Not stated
Bots and bulk downloads	Not stated
Rules	Send a descriptive User-Agent and make requests serially with maxlag. Credit the creator (not the uploader), name the license and link to it. License substantially new works as a ShareAlike file's license requires. Check trademark, personality and privacy rights; images of people may need consent for commercial use.

Connect it to an agent

MCP server	None found
API	API docs · no key
Limits	Unidentified 10 req/min; bots with a compliant User-Agent 200 req/min; established editors 2,000 req/min; keep 3 or fewer concurrent requests.
Status page	www.wikimediastatus.net

Pricing

Free	Free. Wikimedia Enterprise has free and paid tiers for high-volume commercial use.
Paid from	—
Usage price	—
Good to know	The WMF gives no warranty on copyright status; verify each file.

Sources

Read on Oct 10, 2026: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outsid..., mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette, mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_APIs/Rate_limits, mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Imageinfo, wikimediastatus.net.

Not confirmed: That iiprop=extmetadata returns license fields; whether BY-SA extends to a whole video using one BY-SA clip.

Not legal advice. Check the license page before you ship.

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Openverse Search engine and API for openly licensed and public-domain images and audio.	Free	Commercial: conditions Credit varies No bots	Unclear	API
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NASA 3D Resources Free NASA 3D models, with a GitHub mirror (nasa/NASA-3D-Resources); no API.	Free	Commercial: conditions Credit required	—	Download