diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index eec3316..d4fde98 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Personal [Claude Code skills](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills). | Skill | What it does | |---|---| -| [direct-img](direct-img/SKILL.md) | How [direct-img.link](https://direct-img.link) image URLs work, including free (public domain / CC0) images | +| [direct-img](direct-img/SKILL.md) | How [direct-img.link](https://direct-img.link) image URLs work, including free (public domain / CC0) and AI-generated images | ## Install diff --git a/direct-img/SKILL.md b/direct-img/SKILL.md index 8d4db6e..6f0e7b4 100644 --- a/direct-img/SKILL.md +++ b/direct-img/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: direct-img -description: Embed images anywhere with direct-img.link URLs, where https://direct-img.link/orange+cat returns an image directly. For finding or embedding images, photos, gifs or illustrations in chat, markdown, HTML, docs or web pages, and free.direct-img.link for public domain / CC0 images. +description: Embed images anywhere with direct-img.link URLs, where https://direct-img.link/orange+cat returns an image directly. For finding or embedding images, photos, gifs or illustrations in chat, markdown, HTML, docs or web pages, free.direct-img.link for public domain / CC0 images, and ai.direct-img.link for generated images. --- # direct-img.link @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ description: Embed images anywhere with direct-img.link URLs, where https://dire - Words are joined with `+`: `https://direct-img.link/golden+retriever+puppy` - Literal `.` and `/` are rejected; encode them as `%2E` and `%2F`. Other special characters are percent-encoded as usual. Max 200 characters; case and extra spaces are ignored. -- `?i=N` (1–40, default 1; 1–20 on free) returns the N-th working image for the query. Each `i` is a different image. +- `?i=N` (1–40, default 1; 1–20 on free) returns the N-th working image for the query. Each `i` is a different image. If there aren't `i` working images, an AI image is served instead (`bad.webp` on free). - A URL keeps returning the same image for 90 days, then may return a different one. - With no result or an invalid parameter, a placeholder [bad image](https://direct-img.link/assets/bad.webp) is returned. - Any URL can be downloaded and viewed to see what it returns. @@ -21,10 +21,17 @@ description: Embed images anywhere with direct-img.link URLs, where https://dire - `https://free.direct-img.link/` returns only images marked public domain or CC0, from Openverse, then Wikimedia Commons. No credit is needed. It has far fewer images than the main host. - `?src=openverse` or `?src=wikimedia` limits it to one source. `src` and `i` combine in any order. +## AI images + +- `https://ai.direct-img.link/` generates an image instead of searching, so it never comes up empty. +- Images are 512px, soft and painterly: the right colors, setting and mood, but often not the exact object, and faces come out distorted. Use it as a fallback or for abstract/mood images, not when the exact thing matters. +- `?i=N` (1–1000) gives a different image of the same query. `?src=auroraimg-6m` is the only (and default) source. + ## Rate limit - `direct-img.link`: 35 new searches per day per IP - `free.direct-img.link`: 100 new searches per day per IP -- Only new searches count. Cached URLs keep loading after the limit is hit. -- A search's results are kept for 1 hour, so other `?i=` values of a query searched in the last hour don't count either. If an image is wrong, try `?i=2`, `?i=3`… right away before rewording the query, since a reworded query is a new search. +- `ai.direct-img.link`: 100 new images per day per IP +- Each host has its own counter, reset at 00:00 UTC. Only new searches count. Cached URLs keep loading after the limit is hit. +- A search's results are kept for 1 hour, so other `?i=` values of a query searched in the last hour don't count either. If an image is wrong, try `?i=2`, `?i=3`… right away before rewording the query, since a reworded query is a new search. On `ai.` every new `i` is a new image and counts. - Burst: ~10 requests per 10 seconds per IP