Unsplash Search Wrapper (Typescript)

Unsplash? Beautiful, free photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers. With this module, you can search on Unsplash, access the credits and download high-resoulution version. (even raw)

You can integrate it to the admin panel, use in web page, electron app or in node app.

Features

Search in
- all Unsplash photos
- only landscapes
- only portraits
- only squarish (Instagram ready)
Result includes
- Author credits
- Links (raw, download, full-size, thumbnail)
- Related color
- Dimension
- Likes

Requirements

A valid Unsplash API key (Free)

Getting Started

Installation:

npm install unsplash-search

Basic Usage

Create an instance with a valid API access key (see Requirements) A working demo on mnfy.me/unsplash-search-demo (Made with React) Demo source code also avialable on https://github.com/arifaydogmus/unsplash-search-demo

import UnsplashSearch from 'unsplash-search';

const accessKey = '<your api access key>';
const provider = new UnsplashSearch(acessKey);

// Search 'berlin' and get 3rd page
provider
  .searchAll('berlin', 3)
  .then(data => {
    console.log('Total images in result:', data.totalImages);
    console.log('Total pages', data.totalPages);

    data.images.forEach(image => {
      console.log(
        `Taken by ${image.author.name} and download on ${image.urls.full}`
      );
    });
  })
  .catch(error => error);

API Methods

Following methods available names and paramters (if available) describe it self.

searchAll(keyword, page)

Searches in all available photos

searchLandscapes(keyword, page)

Searches only landscape oriented photos

searchPortraits(keyword, page)

Searches only portrait oriented photos

searchSquares(keyword, page)

Searches only square size photos

getQueryLimit()

Returns your API query limit

getRemaingQuery()

Returns your remaining API call

getItemsPerPage()

Returns active setting for how many images will be in result. Default is 10.

setItemsPerPage(limit)

Set setting for how many images will be in result Max is 30 according to Unsplash API.

Warnings

Unsplash official API has orient base search but the images in result may not be your selection.
Obviously the wrapper uses the Unsplash API so, respect to API query limitations.

License

ISC License - Arif Aydogmus