Note: This change is now live after making adjustments to exclude requests from the media inserter from redirection. Earlier, this change was deployed at around 00:41 UTC on Monday June 3 but reverted at 14:00 UTC due to issues with Openverse and the block editor.
On 3 June 2024 the Openverse API’s home will be api.openverse.org and api.openverse.engineering will start redirecting to api.openverse.org. Existing API credentials and all other aspects of integrations with the Openverse API will continue to work without changes, provided requests follow redirects. Integrations that do not follow redirects will break on 3 June 2024. For the best experience, please update code referencing api.openverse.engineering to use api.openverse.org.
In order to prevent backwards compatibility issues for existing integrations (like the Gutenberg media block), we will indefinitely maintain the redirect from api.openverse.engineering, though may choose to entirely deprecate the openverse.engineering domain at some far-future date.
This change unifies Openverse’s public-facing “brand” under the openverse.org domain and removes key areas of complexity in Openverse’s infrastructure, including areas related to site reliability.
The GitHub project thread for this change and its supporting documents explain these motivations in greater detail and outlines the work we’ve completed to make this possible. To comment on or share feedback regarding this change, leave a comment on this announcement post or the GitHub project thread, or leave a message in the #openverse channel of WordPress chat.
We will soon email all registered and verified Openverse API to notify them directly of this change.