Universe 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"
}