Porn API: A Developer's Guide to Searching and Embedding Adult Videos (2026)

If you're building an adult site, app or bot, you need videos: titles, thumbnails, tags, performers and a player that works. You can scrape tubes yourself, which breaks every time a tube changes its HTML, or use an API that does that work and hands you clean JSON. This guide explains what a good porn API gives you and how to use the free Pornalizer Porn API, with examples you can paste and run.

In one line: GET https://pornalizer.app/api/v1/search?query=blonde&per_page=10 returns ten videos with title, duration, thumbnail, tags, performers, studio and a permanent embed player. No key is needed.

What a porn API should return

Most "porn APIs" are thin wrappers around one tube's search page. Before you build on one, check that every result has:

• A clean title and real duration. Scraped results are full of "Free XXX Porn - SiteName" suffixes and 0:00 durations.
• A thumbnail URL that lasts, not a signed link that expires in an hour.
• An embed player that keeps working. Links into a tube's CDN die when the tube changes or the file is removed.
• Tags, categories, performers and studio as structured lists, so you can build hub pages.
• A way to learn about removals, so you can unpublish dead videos before visitors find them.

When we benchmarked 25 adult APIs on RapidAPI with the same query, most returned four or five of eight basic fields and took 1.5 to 7.6 seconds, because they scrape a tube live on every call. Several returned links that were already dead (403, 410, 520). That's the gap this API is built for.

The endpoints

Full parameters and responses are in the API documentation, and the OpenAPI spec is at /api/v1/openapi.json.

Examples

curl

curl -s "https://pornalizer.app/api/v1/search?tags=anal&sort=popular&per_page=20"

PHP

$r = json_decode(file_get_contents(
  'https://pornalizer.app/api/v1/search?query=massage&orientation=straight&per_page=12'), true);
foreach ($r['results'] as $v) {
    echo '<h2>' . htmlspecialchars($v['title']) . '</h2>';
    echo $v['embed']['responsive_iframe'];
}

JavaScript

const r = await fetch('https://pornalizer.app/api/v1/videos/random?orientation=trans&count=5')
  .then(x => x.json());
for (const v of r.results) console.log(v.title, v.duration, v.embed.url);

Python

import requests
r = requests.get("https://pornalizer.app/api/v1/search",
                 params={"performers": "alice-klay", "per_page": 50}).json()
for v in r["results"]:
    print(v["title"], v["duration"], [p["name"] for p in v["performers"]])

What a result looks like

{
  "id": 7163699,
  "title": "ClubSweethearts - Brunette Asian Anna vs Blonde Alice",
  "duration_seconds": 2047, "duration": "34:07",
  "orientation": "straight", "content_type": "scene",
  "thumbnail": "https://pornalizer.app/media/thumbnails/webp/pz-7163699.webp",
  "tags": ["Asian", "Lesbian", "Lingerie", "..."],
  "categories": [{"name": "Lesbian", "slug": "lesbian"}],
  "performers": [{"name": "Alice Klay", "slug": "alice-klay"}],
  "studio": {"name": "Club Sweethearts", "slug": "club-sweethearts"},
  "embed": {"url": "https://pornalizer.app/player/embed/7163699/", "iframe": "<iframe ...>"},
  "mirrors": []
}

Publish-ready by default

Search returns only videos that are ready to publish: a clean title, a real duration, a written description and at least one tag. If you want everything, including videos still waiting for a description, add quality=all. That default exists because the worst thing an API can do is fill your site with pages that look auto-generated.

Never a dead player

Every video is health-checked continuously. The embed URL is permanent: if the main file dies, the player switches to a backup copy by itself (backups are listed in mirrors). Videos that can't be saved show up in /videos/removed, so your sync can unpublish them. We cover the full sync loop in embed API vs manual upload; the short version is: store the id, refresh with updated_since, and unpublish whatever /videos/removed lists.

Unique text in other languages

Add lang=es (or pt, fr, de, it, ru, tr, ar, nl, pl) and titles and descriptions come back translated. That's an easy way to build pages for searches in other languages, which large English tubes mostly ignore.

Free here, or through RapidAPI

The API is open at pornalizer.app/api/v1/ with no key and no request quota; responses are cached, so polling faster than the cache refresh returns the same answer. A free key adds per-site statistics. If your stack already uses RapidAPI, the same API is listed there as Porn API, with one RapidAPI key for billing and monitoring.

Building on WordPress? The plugin does all of this for you; see the WordPress plugin post and the integrations page for KVS, feeds and other platforms.