Tools

Blur Faces & Plates

Free (no credits): find and blur people's faces and car licence plates in property photos before they're posted — street and exterior shots, open houses. Automatic detection, 1–5 photos per call. Says so when nothing is found.

post/api/v1/tools/blur_faces_plates

Request

  • Base URL: https://pixly.app
  • URL: https://pixly.app/api/v1/tools/blur_faces_plates
  • Auth: one of:
    • HTTP bearer
    • OAuth 2 (authorization code, authorization URL https://pixly.app/oauth/authorize, token URL https://pixly.app/api/oauth/token, scopes: tools)

Headers

Idempotency-Keystring

Recommended. A retry with the same key and body returns the first run's result (header Idempotency-Replayed: true) instead of running and charging again. Kept 24 hours; failed runs release the key.

Request body

facesboolean
platesboolean
style'blur' | 'pixelate'

Response

Finished inline — resultUrls present (photo tools)

jobIdstring required

Job id — pass to get_job to poll

type'image_staging' | 'video_pair' | 'video_tour' required

Job family

status'pending' | 'processing' | 'completed' | 'failed' required

Anything not completed/failed is still running

creditsChargednumber nullable required

Credits debited for this job

createdAtstring date-time required

Submission time

completedAtstring date-time

Present once finished

resultUrlsstring[]

Presigned download URLs (present when completed; valid 7 days)

resultPathsstring[]

Storage path of each result, in resultUrls order — pass one as r2Path (or beforeR2Path, a photos[] item…) to run another tool on this result

errorstring

Failure reason; the message says whether the credit came back immediately or is in 24h refund review

notestring

Hint for agents, e.g. poll again in a few seconds

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.