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Pexels-API

The connector uses the v1 API documented here: https://www.pexels.com/api/documentation . It is straightforward HTTP REST API with API based authentication.

API key

Api key is mandate for this connector to work, It could be generated by a free account at https://www.pexels.com/api/new/. Just pass the generated API key and optional parameters for establishing the connection.

Implementation details

Setup guide

Step 1: Set up Pexels-API connection

• Generate an API key (Example: 12345)
• Params (If specific info is needed)
• Available params
  • query: Ocean, Tigers, Pears, etc. Default is people
  • orientation: landscape, portrait or square. Default is landscape
  • size: large, medium, small. Default is large
  • color: red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, violet, pink, brown, black, gray, white or any hexidecimal color code.
  • locale: en-US, pt-BR, es-ES, ca-ES, de-DE, it-IT, fr-FR, sv-SE, id-ID, pl-PL, ja-JP, zh-TW, zh-CN, ko-KR, th-TH, nl-NL, hu-HU, vi-VN,
    cs-CZ, da-DK, fi-FI, uk-UA, el-GR, ro-RO, nb-NO, sk-SK, tr-TR, ru-RU. Default is en-US

Step 2: Generate schema for the endpoint

Custom schema is generated and tested with different IDs

Step 3: Spec, Secrets, and connector yaml files are configured with reference to the Airbyte documentation.

In a nutshell:

1. Navigate to the Airbyte Open Source dashboard.
2. Set the name for your source.
3. Enter your api_key.
4. Enter your config params if needed. (Optional)
5. Click Set up source.

• We use only GET methods, towards the API endpoints which is straightforward