Search freely licensed video
search_free_videosRead-onlyIdempotent
Use this when the user wants a video they can reuse, such as ocean waves or a historical film with a free licence. Pass topic words. It searches Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive and returns a download link, the licence and attribution for each hit. We do not rip videos: downloading from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, Douyin, Bilibili or Xiaohongshu, or stripping a watermark, breaks those sites' terms. A platform URL, a watermark request, or a named ripper returns that explanation and no file. Pexels and Pixabay are included only when their keys are configured; otherwise the answer says they were not searched.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | How many videos to return, 5 by default | |
| query | Yes | Topic words, such as ocean waves. A platform URL is refused. | |
| sources | No | commons, archive, or both. Both when omitted. |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| as_of | Yes | Date the sources were read (UTC, YYYY-MM-DD) | |
| count | Yes | ||
| error | No | Present when status is not ok: a stable code, what went wrong and what to do next. | |
| notes | No | ||
| query | Yes | ||
| source | Yes | ||
| status | Yes | ||
| results | Yes | ||
| explanation | No | Present when a platform download or watermark removal was asked for | |
| licence_note | No |