Search GIFs and Stickers
Explore how to perform searches for GIFs and stickers using the GIPHY API search endpoint. Learn to apply search queries, filter results by language and rating, and handle response data. This lesson helps you integrate dynamic media search into your application using sample code examples.
In this lesson, we focus on GIPHY's search endpoint for both GIFs and stickers.
The search endpoint
Many of us are well-acquainted with text-based search. We provide a query string, and all possible matches are returned. The search functionality is a basic, yet significant functionality in any application. We can use words to search for a relevant GIF or sticker and choose one from the results.
GIPHY's search endpoint allows us to find any GIF or sticker from their library with just a simple search word or phrase. We can also do a channel-specific search (content from a specific channel) if we use the “@” sign before the GIPHY channel name. This will return the content ...