What is Roboflow Universe?

An introduction to the Roboflow Universe platform.

About

Roboflow Universe is the world's largest community of people sharing computer vision datasets and models.

You can use Universe to find data for use in training a model. You can also use Universe to find a pre-trained model to use in a Workflow.

Over one million datasets have been shared on Universe, and 50,000 models have been trained and made available for use.

If you are on a free plan, your datasets and models will be available on Roboflow Universe. If you are on a paid plan, you can create private projects. Private projects are only accessible to your Workspace and are never public.

The Roboflow Universe home page.

This section of documentation walks through how to use Universe in your computer vision projects.

HTTP API

Roboflow Universe provides the following endpoints:

• Search public datasets

Search Universe datasets

get

Search publicly available datasets on Roboflow Universe. Supports inline filter syntax in the query string (e.g. images>100, dog+stars>=5, class:cat, model:yolov8, object detection).

Authorizations

ApiKeyQueryBearerAuth

api_keystringRequired

Query parameters

qstringRequired

pageintegerOptional

Responses

200

OK

No content

400

Bad Request

401

Unauthorized

429

Too Many Requests

502

Bad Gateway

get/universe/search

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

GET /universe/search?q=text HTTP/1.1
Host: api.roboflow.com
Accept: */*

No content

Thumbnail fields

Each result in the response includes two thumbnail fields:

Field	Type	Description
thumbnail	string | null	URL to the project's thumbnail image. null when the project has no icon set.
annotationThumbnail	string | null	URL to a sample annotated image from the project. null when annotation data is unavailable.

Example result snippet:

{
  "name": "Cars",
  "url": "https://universe.roboflow.com/growth-plan/cars-8q9vz",
  "thumbnail": "https://source.roboflow.com/.../thumb.jpg",
  "annotationThumbnail": "https://source.roboflow.com/.../annotation-cars.png"
}