Pixlr API

Introduction

The Pixlr API enables web developers to use Pixlr applications on their own site. Everything that is done on this site can be done on yours. Added advanced image editing capabilities is very easy.

Using the API is completely free, although if you expect to send us a lot of traffic please warn us beforehand.

How it works

The /editor and /express pages takes special parameters either as querystring or form parameters. You dont have to do anything special to get the application to recognize the parameters, we check for them on every request.

Javascript library

You can use the parameters specified below in anyway you want, but if you just want something simple and quick our javascript library is probably the thing to use.

We have a site with examples on how to use the js library: developer.pixlr.com

You can download the library here.

In parameters (what you send to us)

Name	Description
referrer	The name of the referring service for example "Your site name" or "Facebook"
exit	The URL to send the visitor if the user click exit/close
image	A URL to the image or the post raw data of the image to open
title	The title of the opened image
method	The way we send the image information, "GET" or "POST", default is "GET" If you set this to POST then you have to have a crossdomain.xml in the root of your web application. And you need to add pixlr.com to the list of valid domains (or just copy ours)
target	The URL to which we send the image information
redirect	If you want a different page to be shown after the save (Not to recommend, use the target page) or "false" if you don't want the user to remain in the application after save.
locktarget	Remove the possibility for the user to "save to computer"
locktitle	Lock the image title so the user can't change it
locktype	Lock the save format, values are jpg, png, bmp, pxd or source
lockquality	Lock the jpg quality when the user saves the image, values are 0-100

Out parameters (what we send to you)

Name	Description
image	The content of this parameter depends on the value of the "method" in-parameter. If method was GET the value of image is an url to where we saved the image. If method was POST the value of image is the actual image.
title	The title of the image the user typed in when saving.
type	The type of image can be: jpg, png, bmp or pxd.