Trace Moe API

Overview

Measurement Record

What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.

Request

GET https://api.trace.moe/search?url=https://images.plurk.com/32B15UXxymfSMwKGTObY5e.jpg

Result

HTTP 200 · application/json · 3,398 bytes · compressed

Response time

397 ms (median of 3) · fastest 389 ms

Transport

TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 · certificate issued by Google Trust Services

Browser CORS

Allowed — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://apisscore.com

Rate limit

100 per window (99 remaining at test time)

Served by

cloudflare

Recorded

2026-08-10

Fields Returned

Top-level fields present in the response we captured, with the type and value we actually received.

Captured Response

Captured from a real request to https://api.trace.moe/search?url=https://images.plurk.com/32B15UXxymfSMwKGTObY5e.jpg on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.

{
  "quota": 100,
  "quotaUsed": 3,
  "frameCount": 1699955082,
  "error": "",
  "result": [
    {
      "anilist": 21034,
      "filename": "Gochuumon wa Usagi Desuka 2 - 01 (BD 1280x720 x264 AAC).mp4",
      "episode": 1,
      "from": 272.1886,
      "at": 279.7795,
      "to": 282.6574,
      "duration": 1418.0834,
      "similarity": 0.9922267306084727,
      "video": "https://api.trace.moe/video/Ad5mtcF3IVJki1XuxwIiyWo",
      "image": "https://api.trace.moe/image/Ad5mtcF3IVJki1XuxwIiyWo"
    }
  ]
}

Implementation Example

Request skeleton. The URL below is this API's documentation page, not a live endpoint — swap in the path you need from the provider's docs before running it.

const url = "https://soruly.github.io/trace.moe-api/";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://soruly.github.io/trace.moe-api/"
headers = {}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=30)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

curl "https://api.trace.moe/search?url=https://images.plurk.com/32B15UXxymfSMwKGTObY5e.jpg"

What Can You Build?

// Search for anime characters
const query = 'Naruto';
const response = await fetch(`https://soruly.github.io/trace.moe-api/#`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log('Search results:', data);

// Fetch trending or popular anime
const response = await fetch(`https://soruly.github.io/trace.moe-api/#`);
const data = await response.json();
const items = Array.isArray(data) ? data.slice(0, 5) : [data];
items.forEach(item => {
  console.log('Recommended:', item.name || item.title || JSON.stringify(item));
});

// Get random anime content from Trace Moe
const response = await fetch(`https://soruly.github.io/trace.moe-api/#`);
const result = await response.json();
document.getElementById('anime-content').innerHTML =
  `<h3>${result.title || result.name || 'Trace Moe'}</h3>
   <p>${result.description || JSON.stringify(result)}</p>`;

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

How This API Fails

We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.

{
  "error": "Invalid image url !!!invalid!!!"
}

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.