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# PhotoRobot Cloud API

> PhotoRobot's REST API for integrating the studio with catalogue, DAM, PIM and e-commerce systems.

Also known as: Cloud API, Cloud API V2, API V2. Category: Software.

The PhotoRobot Cloud API is the programming interface of PhotoRobot Cloud. It lets other systems create product items, automate capture workflows and deliver processed images through scalable hosting and feeds.

## How PhotoRobot uses it

Cloud API V2 introduced unified responses, standardised payloads and defined error codes under /api/v2/; existing authentication keys continue to work. PhotoRobot announced that V1 is deprecated and would be shut down on 30 September 2026. Documentation is on the PhotoRobot Developer Portal (developer.photorobot.com). A separate Control Unit API controls only robot movements and is available on request; PhotoRobot recommends the Cloud API for controlling the whole studio.

## See on photorobot.com

- [Developer Portal and Cloud API V2](https://www.photorobot.com/blog/developer-portal-cloud-api-v2)
- [System integration and API connectivity](https://www.photorobot.com/manuals/system-integration)

## Related terms

- [API (application programming interface)](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/api): A defined interface through which one piece of software can use the functions or data of another.
- [Webhook](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/webhook): An HTTP request one system sends to another automatically when an event happens.
- [Export feed](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/export-feed): A machine-readable XML or JSON list of items and image URLs that other systems read automatically.
- [PhotoRobot Developer Portal](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/developer-portal): PhotoRobot's documentation site for the Cloud API, with interactive endpoint references.
- [PhotoRobot Cloud](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/photorobot-cloud): PhotoRobot's cloud platform for storing, processing, hosting and distributing product images.

## Where this term appears on photorobot.com

Mentioned on 9 pages. Most relevant:

- [Introducing the PhotoRobot Developer Portal & Cloud API V2](https://www.photorobot.com/blog/developer-portal-cloud-api-v2): …photography workflows for modern enterprise using the PhotoRobot Developer Portal & API V2 for cloud integrations.
- [PhotoRobot System Integration & Rich API Connectivity](https://www.photorobot.com/manuals/system-integration): Note: To control not only the robot but also cameras, lights, and other equipment from one interface, use of PhotoRobot Cloud API is recommended.
- [Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in PhotoRobot Controls](https://www.photorobot.com/manuals/optical-character-recognition): …via PhotoRobot Controls, as there is no OCR endpoint available in the PhotoRobot Cloud API.
- [Introducing: Customer Webhooks for PhotoRobot Cloud](https://www.photorobot.com/blog/customer-webhooks): After 2xx, the integration pulls the current item from REST v2 (pull.itemUrl / pull.deltaUrl).
- [PhotoRobot Product Photography Automation Solutions](https://www.photorobot.com/): The PhotoRobot Cloud API provides a strict, standard-driven integration contract for engineering teams to ensure frictionless integration with enterprise-grade stability.
- [PhotoRobot Control System - Overview for System Offers](https://www.photorobot.com/manuals/control-system-overview): …of Licenses Firmware Updates Service Interface Access for Remote Diagnostics System Cloud API with PhotoRobot _Controls (for the integration into customer systems if the customer’s own control system…
- [What is Automated Product Content Production?](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/what-is-automated-product-content-production): Instead, Cloud API integrations automatically push the web-optimized images, 360-degree viewers, and 3D assets directly to e-commerce platforms, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), or internal ERP…
- [What is E-commerce Product Imaging?](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/what-is-ecommerce-product-imaging): Through Cloud API integrations, approved product images are pushed directly from the studio software into the retailer's PIM system or Content Delivery Network (CDN).
- [The PhotoRobot-Powered Production Line](https://www.photorobot.com/production-line): PhotoRobot Cloud API integrates with existing eCommerce export feeds (JSON / XML), with delivery on a global CDN.