GIPHY

Although GIF production came into existence back in the 80s, a company named GIPHY now maintains a massive online searchable database of GIFs that attracts millions of people every day. GIPHY not only gives access to GIFs, but it also provides its users with stickers, clips, animated text, and more.

Note: According to GIPHY, they serve over 10 billion pieces of GIPHY content to a daily user reach of over 700 million people.

GIPHY is very easy to use. Whatever form of expression users want to look for, they can search for it on GIPHY if they use a keyword and select what they like the most from the results.

How does GIPHY provide users with variety in such a large amount of data? GIPHY has its own tools and features that allow users to create content of their own, which is maintained by the GIPHY website. Individuals and businesses alike can create their own GIFs, (as well as stickers, short video clips, animated text, and emojis), and upload them to GIPHY’s art gallery.

What is GIPHY Developers?

GIPHY Developers is a useful and interactive resource for developers like us who are interested in the GIPHY API and SDK. The GIPHY API and SDK help us integrate the visual search engine, GIF library, and other powerful features into our applications.

The GIPHY API

The GIPHY API helps us add the functionality that allows users to search for GIFs based on keywords, terms, tags, ratings, GIPHY’s unique translation algorithm, or even just randomly. Their API also provides us with multiple GIF options and file types. In addition to the static thumbnail, GIPHY API also enables us to fetch a high-resolution MP4 file.

The GIPHY SDK

Similar to the GIPHY API, GIPHY SDK is the fastest and easiest way to bring the entire GIPHY experience directly to our application. The GIPHY SDK not only allows us to incorporate GIFs, stickers, and clips into our application or website. It also allows us to integrate exclusive content such as GIPHY Text and Emoji. It also provides pre-built, customizable template options to help us find the perfect UI for our applications.

Mentioned below are a few reasons why GIPHY API/SDK is a great option.

  • It’s safe to rely on GIPHY to fetch and use GIFs, as it’s the first and largest GIF search engine that serves more than 10 billion GIFs per day.

  • GIPHY’s library contains millions of GIFs, stickers, and clips that are powered by thousands of artists and hundreds of premium content partners, which provides users with quality content.

  • GIHPY’s powerful search algorithm allows users to conveniently express themselves and animate their conversations with the exact GIF they were looking for or one they didn’t even know they wanted.

  • GIPHY offers optimized loading and renditions of GIFs, stickers, and clips for different platforms and devices to ensure loading content doesn’t hinder our application’s speed.

An overview of the API endpoints

An API endpoint is a point where an API communicates with a software program.

We’ll cover most of the endpoints provided by GIPHY API in this course. The illustration below will help us get an idea of what these endpoints are.

An overview of the GIPHY SDK

We’ll cover most of the GIPHY SDK functions in this course. The illustration below will help us get an idea of what these functions are.

Note: The illustration below doesn't show the functions for trending, search, random, and categories, since they work the same way as their API endpoints.