---
title: "Straighten Photo"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/tools/straighten_photo"
tags: ["Tools"]
---

# Straighten Photo

`POST /api/v1/tools/straighten_photo`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://pixly.app`
- URL: `https://pixly.app/api/v1/tools/straighten_photo`
- 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`)

Free (no credits): automatically straighten a property photo — leaning walls made vertical (converging verticals from a tilted camera) and a tilted horizon levelled, like a pro photographer's lens correction. Crops the edges slightly. Best before staging or any other edit. Says so when the photo is already straight or has no straight lines to go by.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Request body

- object
  - `imageUrl` string: Public https URL of the source photo, or a data: URI. Either imageUrl or r2Path is required.
  - `r2Path` string: Storage path of a photo already in the user's Pixly library (from list_library, or returned by an upload ticket) — the alternative to imageUrl.

## Response `200`

Finished inline — resultUrls present (photo tools)

- Job
  - `jobId` string, 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
  - `creditsCharged` number, nullable, required: Credits debited for this job
  - `createdAt` string, date-time, required: Submission time
  - `completedAt` string, date-time: Present once finished
  - `resultUrls` string[]: Presigned download URLs (present when completed; valid 7 days)
  - `resultPaths` string[]: Storage path of each result, in resultUrls order — pass one as r2Path (or beforeR2Path, a photos[] item…) to run another tool on this result
  - `error` string: Failure reason; the message says whether the credit came back immediately or is in 24h refund review
  - `note` string: Hint for agents, e.g. poll again in a few seconds

## Other responses

- `202`: Accepted and running — poll GET /api/v1/jobs/{id} (video tools)
- `401`: Missing/invalid credential
- `402`: Out of credits, or no active subscription (error.required = credits needed) — POST /api/v1/checkout returns a payment link
- `409`: A request with the same Idempotency-Key is still running — retry in a few seconds for its result
- `410`: Source photo no longer available — re-upload
- `422`: Invalid input — error.issues lists the offending fields
- `429`: Rate limited — see Retry-After (120 req/min, 30/min for generations)

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