Strip image metadata over an API

Send the image bytes, get them back clean. EXIF, IPTC and XMP markers and C2PA provenance manifests are removed; image data is preserved byte for byte, with no recompression.

Free up to 250 calls a month

The allowance is permanent, applies to each endpoint and needs no card. Above it the API answers 402, and Pro B2B opens 500 strips a day, roughly 15,000 a month.

First call

Create an account: full access, API included, is open for 30 days with no card. Generate a key from your settings, then call the API. No waitlist, no emails to exchange.

curl -X POST https://www.ghostmeta.online/api/v1/strip \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer gm_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: image/jpeg" \
  --data-binary @photo.jpg \
  --fail-with-body \
  --output photo-clean.jpg

Endpoints

Endpoint	Effect
POST /api/v1/strip	Removes all metadata and returns the cleaned image, in the same content type.
POST /api/v1/inspect	Reports detected C2PA provenance manifests, without modifying the file. Reading EXIF and GPS fields happens in the browser, not through this API.

Lossless by construction

Server-side cleaning does not redraw the image: it removes the metadata blocks from the container and leaves the pixel data intact, byte for byte. One caveat: on a JPEG the ICC colour profile is removed along with the other APP segments, so a wide-gamut image will then be interpreted as sRGB. PNGs keep their profile.

Limits

10 MB per request
JPEG and PNG
500 strip calls per day per account
1,000 inspect calls per day per account
Daily quotas reset at midnight UTC; the monthly allowance resets on the 1st
Calls rejected for an invalid or oversized file count toward the quota

European hosting

Processing and database in the European Union. Images are not retained: they are processed in memory and the response is returned immediately.

PRO B2B — 19€/month