Search GIFs and Stickers

In this lesson, we focus on GIPHY's search endpoint for both GIFs and stickers.

The search endpoint

Many of us are well-acquainted with text-based search. We provide a query string, and all possible matches are returned. The search functionality is a basic, yet significant functionality in any application. We can use words to search for a relevant GIF or sticker and choose one from the results.

GIPHY's search endpoint allows us to find any GIF or sticker from their library with just a simple search word or phrase. We can also do a channel-specific search (content from a specific channel) if we use the “@” sign before the GIPHY channel name. This will return the content ...