Image EXIF

POST /api/image-exif

Read EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata from a JPEG. Camera make/model, GPS coords, capture date, exposure settings, copyright, and more.

Returns the EXIF / IPTC / XMP metadata embedded in a JPEG: camera make / model, lens, exposure (shutter / aperture / ISO), capture timestamp, GPS coordinates if present, copyright / contact fields, software that produced the file. Useful for asset-management workflows: photo cataloguing, duplicate detection by capture timestamp, location-tagged galleries.

Inputs

Name	Type	Default	Description
image*	file	—	JPEG, HEIC/HEIF, AVIF, TIFF, WebP, or PNG.
xmp	boolean	false	Include the XMP RDF packet (can be large).
thumbnail	boolean	false	Include the embedded thumbnail bytes as base64.
icc	boolean	true	Include ICC color profile metadata.
iptc	boolean	true	Include IPTC tags.
translate	boolean	true	Translate numeric tag IDs to human-readable names + decode enum values.

Response

Modes: json. Cache: yes (24h TTL).

Code samples

Built from the sample-jpeg example.

# Download or substitute the example input:
#   curl -O https://xtract.bot/examples/image-exif/sample.jpg
IMAGE=$(base64 -w0 < sample.jpg)

curl -X POST https://api.xtract.bot/api/image-exif \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-Account-Id: $XTRACT_ACCOUNT_ID" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $XTRACT_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "xmp": false,
  "thumbnail": false,
  "image": "'"$IMAGE"'"
}'