Resources
How to Get a Pixabay API Key
A free Pixabay API key lets Sourcer search and insert royalty-free photos, illustrations, and videos directly into your timeline. Setup is quick — under 2 minutes.
Which plugins use this?
Step-by-step guide
Visit pixabay.com/accounts/register and sign up. It's free. If you already have an account, just sign in.
While signed in, go to pixabay.com/api/docs.
Pixabay shows your personal API key directly in the documentation page once you're signed in. Look for a highlighted box near the top labeled "Your API key" — it's a long string of letters and numbers.
Tip: search the page for "key" if you can't spot it immediately.
Click to select the key and copy it. There's no separate dashboard or app to create — Pixabay generates one key per account automatically.
Go to API Keys in your account settings (or Settings in Filmit Studio) and paste the key into the Pixabay field. Hit Save.
Your Pixabay key syncs across all your devices. Open Sourcer in After Effects or Premiere Pro and the Pixabay library is ready to search.
Common questions
Yes. The Pixabay API is fully free and the photos and videos are royalty-free under the Pixabay Content License. The free tier allows 100 requests per minute, which is plenty for editing.
Yes — for most uses, including commercial. Pixabay content is free for personal and commercial use without attribution. Some restrictions apply for using identifiable people or branded content; the full license terms are on Pixabay's site.
Pixabay keeps things simple — there's no separate developer console. Your API key is automatically tied to your Pixabay account and shown directly in the API docs page when you're signed in.
Most often it's a rate limit — wait a minute and try again. If the key itself is invalid, sign back in to Pixabay, copy the latest key from the API docs page, and update it in your Filmit account.