Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
26 pointsby dfajgljsldkjag25 days ago7 comments
  • Giviberidze25 days ago
    Wow. Here's the free alternative free GIF API with monetization - KLIPY - https://klipy.com/developers You can migrate in few minutes with just base url swap.
    • toomuchtodo25 days ago
      You should mention you are the founder.
      • Giviberidze25 days ago
        You're right - I'm the co-founder of KLIPY
    • xfalcox24 days ago
      That is a great fit for the GIF integration in Discourse.

      I was able to quickly add support for it at https://github.com/discourse/discourse-gifs/pull/107

      Love to see WEBP support. Do you plan on adding support for AVIF?

      Also, this is used by many Discourse sites, we should talk.

      • salimereba23 days ago
        For sure! Hit us up at hi@klipy.com with more details - did you request production access via Partner Panel https://partner.klipy.com ?

        Re AVIF, do you need those for specific purpose?

  • sweca25 days ago
    > We are making this change to focus our resources on enhancing the main Tenor experience.

    Is it really that hard to just keep the API running?

    • salimereba25 days ago
      The amount of apps they support it probably costs $50-100m+/year
      • sweca24 days ago
        Ahh I didn't realize it was completely free. That's pretty crazy
  • AlienRobot24 days ago
    >We are making this change to focus our resources on enhancing the main Tenor experience.

    What main Tenor experience?

  • micromacrofoot25 days ago
    "Sorry, we have a new way to sell people images that don't belong to us"
  • devreis25 days ago
    well, time to switch to giphy
    • Giviberidze25 days ago
      Try KLIPY also - https://klipy.com/migrate we have much better GIFs, free access and monetization features. It takes 10 minutes to switch from Tenor with base URL swap.
      • retretret24 days ago
        played with your API a bit and ran some searches with contentfilter=high, response objects don’t seem to include a per-item rating / nsfw flag (like GIPHY does)

        For apps that need strict SFW, is the expectation just to rely on the request-side filtering, or is there additional metadata I should be looking at that might not be documented yet?

        • salimereba23 days ago
          This is really weird, honestly. Any chance you could send me url you're using so I can see what GIFs it returns? 100% of our content are in 4 different categories G, PG, PG13, R. G is super safe for everyone to use
    • cyberdick24 days ago
      gliphy is horrible when it comes to gifs, they are sooooooo heavily curated and its insane to find a proper gif in there.
  • Andrex23 days ago
    Forgive me HN comment guidelines.

    This is fucking BULLSHIT, Google.

  • mwhaat25 days ago
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