Placemonkeys

Because monkeys are amazing.

Image of a monkey

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Easy to use

To get a simple square image:

https://www.placemonkeys.com/500

Or you can specify your desired width & height:

https://www.placemonkeys.com/500/350

Greyscale

To get an image with the greyscale filter, just add ?greyscale at the end of the URL.

https://www.placemonkeys.com/500/350?greyscale
Image of a monkey with a greyscale filter

Sepia

To get an image with the sepia filter, just add ?sepia at the end of the URL.

https://www.placemonkeys.com/500/350?sepia
Image of a monkey with a sepia filter

Blur

To get a blurred image, just add ?blur at the end of the URL.

https://www.placemonkeys.com/500/350?blur

The default amount of blur is 15 , but you can adjust it as you like by providing a value between 0 and 100 .

https://www.placemonkeys.com/500/350?blur=25
Image of a monkey with a blur filter

Spooky

To get some spooky monkeys, just add ?spooky at the end of the URL.

https://www.placemonkeys.com/500/350?spooky
Image of a monkey with a spooky filter

Advanced usage

Any filters seen above can be combined.

For example, if you want to have a severe headache, you can combine the spooky and blur filters:

https://www.placemonkeys.com/500/350?spooky&blur

You can prevent requested images from being cached by appending ?random at the end of the URL.

https://www.placemonkeys.com/500/350?random

If you want multiple images of the same size, add the ?random param as well as a value:

https://www.placemonkeys.com/500/350?random=1
https://www.placemonkeys.com/500/350?random=2
Image of a monkey with a sepia and blur filters