Consider chipping in
Due to consistent high loads, I've moved this service to a more powerful hosting package. That means it costs more. If you regularly use LoremFlickr, consider chipping in a few bucks now and then. Our cat Oli will love you for it.
LoremFlickr provides placeholder images for every case, web or print, on almost any subject, in any size. It's simple and free. Just put the custom url in your code like so:
LoremFlickr<img src="http://loremflickr.com/320/240" />Photos come from Flickr and have a Creative Commons license. The flavour of the license is shown in the top left of the image. The name of the image and the author are shown in the bottom left.
http://loremflickr.com/320/240A random picture of 320 x 240 pixels. If not supplying any keyword, you'll get a picture matching the keyword kitten.
http://loremflickr.com/320/240/dogA random picture matching the keyword dog, of 320 x 240 pixels.
http://loremflickr.com/g/320/240/parisA random picture in gray matching the keyword paris, of 320 x 240 pixels. Besides g, you can try p, red, green and blue.
http://loremflickr.com/320/240/brazil,rioA random picture matching the keywords brazil or rio, of 320 x 240 pixels.
http://loremflickr.com/320/240/paris,girl/allA random picture matching the keywords paris and girl, of 320 x 240 pixels.
http://loremflickr.com/g/320/240/paris,girl/allA random picture in grey matching the keywords paris and girl, of 320 x 240 pixels.
If no matching photos are found, a photo of Machu Picchu is returned.
Your browser might cache the images when you request the same URL multiple times on the same page. You can resolve this by adding a meaningless querystring to the URL. So, for example...
<img src="http://loremflickr.com/320/240?random=1" />
<img src="http://loremflickr.com/320/240?random=2" />
<img src="http://loremflickr.com/320/240?random=3" />Yes, at least until the bandwidth usage spirals out of control, this service is free. But, feel free to donate.
PayPal.Mehttp://loremflickr.com/rss/d/g/320/240/paris,girl/all
If you want a daily image on your favourite collection of keywords, here's an example of an RSS feed that will deliver a fresh photo to your RSS reader each day.
The d parameter for periodic updates is currently the only one that's supported.
| Today | 4.375 |
| Total | 73.010.842 |
| Sep 2017 | (estimate) 2.082.745 |
| Aug 2017 | 2.820.949 |
| Jul 2017 | 2.578.045 |
| Jun 2017 | 3.281.731 |
| May 2017 | 3.073.920 |
| Apr 2017 | 2.562.882 |
| Mar 2017 | 2.475.608 |
| Feb 2017 | 4.589.707 |
| Jan 2017 | 3.685.842 |
| Dec 2016 | 1.920.809 |
| Nov 2016 | 2.047.541 |
| Oct 2016 | 2.841.417 |
| Sep 2016 | 2.956.516 |
| Aug 2016 | 2.231.641 |
| Jul 2016 | 5.847.812 |
| Jun 2016 | 3.335.663 |
| May 2016 | 3.423.278 |
| Apr 2016 | 2.829.333 |
| Mar 2016 | 2.956.211 |
| Feb 2016 | 1.857.228 |
| Jan 2016 | 1.979.565 |
| Dec 2015 | 2.176.852 |
| Nov 2015 | 1.602.578 |
| Oct 2015 | 1.633.588 |
| Sep 2015 | 1.413.283 |
| Aug 2015 | 1.088.125 |
| Jul 2015 | 765.740 |
| Jun 2015 | 618.967 |
| May 2015 | 451.527 |
| Apr 2015 | 557.304 |
| Mar 2015 | 410.055 |
| Feb 2015 | 378.293 |
| Jan 2015 | 301.813 |
| Dec 2014 | 310.097 |
| Nov 2014 | 119.973 |
| Oct 2014 | 159.896 |
| Sep 2014 | 92.270 |
| Aug 2014 | 31.244 |
| Jul 2014 | 875 |
2017-02-02: Kodie Grantham created a LoremFlickr clone in node.
2017-01-17: We've improved server response time. We're caching less, which means you should see images repeated less often.
2016-12-22: To limit use of server resources, we're using more aggressive caching methods. You might see images repeated more often.
2016-09-15: To limit use of server resources, served images will not be larger than 1280 pixels to a side.