Developers & agents

Borne Visual Database API

980 provenance-tracked assets across 41 categories, fully captioned and keyworded. Browsing and search are open and require no API key.

OpenAPI 3.1 spec →Full database — $17,500

Search the database

curl "https://bornesociety.com/api/v1/images?q=architecture&limit=5"

Filters: q, category, family, orientation, limit, offset. Cursor via next.

Browse categories and families

curl "https://bornesociety.com/api/v1/categories"

Families group related assets — every Louis Poulsen lamp, every Van Gogh — so you can pull a coherent subset in one call.

Evaluate before buying

curl "https://bornesociety.com/api/dataset/manifest"
curl "https://bornesociety.com/api/dataset/sample?limit=25"

Manifest returns licence terms, size and category breakdown. Sample returns real records spread across the database, free.

Purchase — full database

curl -X POST "https://bornesociety.com/api/dataset/purchase" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email":"data@yourcompany.com"}'

# → { "url": "https://checkout.stripe.com/...", "amount": 17500 }

No account, no sales call. Perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide ML-training licence.

Purchase — single image

curl -X POST "https://bornesociety.com/api/checkout/license" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"slug":"<image-id>"}'

# → { "url": "https://checkout.stripe.com/..." }  ($17.99)

Metadata shape

{
  "id": "louis-poulsen-ph5-pendant-lamp-copper",
  "title": "Louis Poulsen PH5 Pendant Lamp – Copper",
  "caption": "…SEO-rich descriptive caption…",
  "category": "Lighting",
  "family": "Louis Poulsen",
  "keywords": ["louis", "poulsen", "ph5", "pendant", "lighting", …],
  "attributes": { "orientation": "portrait", "colors": ["copper"], "era": null },
  "technical": { "width": 1200, "height": 1600, "megapixels": 1.92,
                 "aspectRatio": 0.75, "format": "webp", "colorSpace": "sRGB" }
}

Custom scope, exclusivity or bulk delivery (S3, signed URLs, direct transfer): elliot.osborne.ai@gmail.com