How to hit the Lorem Picsum API

Lorem Picsum serves real photos as placeholders: https://picsum.photos/400/300 is a random 400×300 image. The JSON endpoints list the photos and their authors.

Authentication

None — no key, no signup. Every example runs as-is.

Full reference: https://picsum.photos/

List photos

curl "https://picsum.photos/v2/list?page=1&limit=2"
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Example response (trimmed) 
[
  {
    "id": "0",
    "author": "Alejandro Escamilla",
    "width": 5000,
    "height": 3333,
    "url": "https://unsplash.com/photos/yC-Yzbqy7PY",
    "download_url": "https://picsum.photos/id/0/5000/3333"
  },
  {
    "id": "1",
    "author": "Alejandro Escamilla",
    "width": 5000,
    "height": 3333,
    "url": "https://unsplash.com/photos/LNRyGwIJr5c",
    "download_url": "https://picsum.photos/id/1/5000/3333"
  }
]

Info for one photo

curl https://picsum.photos/id/237/info
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Example response (trimmed) 
{
  "id": "237",
  "author": "André Spieker",
  "width": 3500,
  "height": 2095,
  "url": "https://unsplash.com/photos/8wTPqxlnKM4",
  "download_url": "https://picsum.photos/id/237/3500/2095"
}