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.
Private projects are not publicly listed on Roboflow Universe. You can control project privacy.
This section of documentation walks through how to use Universe in your computer vision projects.
HTTP API
Roboflow Universe provides the following endpoints:
Search Universe datasets
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).
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Bad Request
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Bad Gateway
GET /universe/search?q=text HTTP/1.1
Host: api.roboflow.com
Accept: */*
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Thumbnail fields
Each result in the response includes two thumbnail fields:
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:
MCP Server
Connect your AI agent to the MCP Server and it can explore Universe with these tools:
universe_search
Search Roboflow Universe for datasets or models.
universe_dataset_images_search
Search images inside a public Universe dataset given its URL.
projects_fork
Enqueue an async fork of a public Universe project into your workspace.
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