Automation & developers

Programmatic image generation via one API, webhooks and your own queue.

The API speaks one shape. Anything that can POST JSON can drive PixelDrive, including the next thing your team builds in-house.

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/v1/render drives everything

Automation & developers example render
Automation & developers example render
Automation & developers example render

The problem

Most image services give you a dashboard and an afterthought of an API. When images are part of a pipeline, that is backwards. You need the API to be the product, with the dashboard as the thin layer on top, not the other way around.

How PixelDrive does it

  1. 01

    One endpoint to learn

    POST /v1/render for a single image, /v1/jobs for a batch. There is no separate batch API to integrate.

  2. 02

    Authenticate by token

    Bearer tokens with expiry and scopes. Billed per render, never per seat.

  3. 03

    Drive it from anything

    Webhooks, Zapier, n8n, cron, a Lambda or an MCP-aware AI client. If it speaks JSON, it speaks PixelDrive.

  4. 04

    Stream progress

    Subscribe to SSE on a job to watch renders land in real time, or just collect the URLs when it finishes.

What you can vary.

Every field below is a variable in the template. Set them per render; everything else stays locked to the brand.

  • Any template variable
  • Batch size
  • Output format (PNG/JPEG/WebP/AVIF)
  • Webhook callbacks
  • Token scope
  • Cache behaviour

Questions

  • Q.01

    Is there a single API for both one image and bulk batches?

    Yes. POST /v1/render returns one image; /v1/jobs runs a batch and exposes progress over SSE. Same auth, same template, same payload shape, so there is nothing extra to learn for scale.

  • Q.02

    Can an AI assistant drive image generation?

    Yes. PixelDrive ships a hosted MCP endpoint. Point Claude, Cursor or any MCP-aware client at it with a token and the model can discover the editor, build a template, preview for free and generate the final image.

  • Q.03

    What automation tools are supported?

    Any tool that can send an HTTP request: Zapier, Make, n8n, GitHub Actions, cron, your own queue. PixelDrive returns hosted URLs you can pass downstream.

  • Q.04

    How is it billed?

    Per render, with cache hits free. There are no per-seat fees, and the same /v1/render endpoint is available on every plan with no feature gating on the API surface.

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