Gyazo API
Gyazo runs a small self-serve REST API with OAuth 2.0 Bearer tokens: image upload, list, search, and delete, plus public oEmbed. It is image-only; video captures, webhooks, and team administration have no programmatic surface, and rate limits are unpublished.
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Gyazo scores B+ on the API Report Card. Gyazo runs a small self-serve REST API with OAuth 2.0 Bearer tokens: image upload, list, search, and delete, plus public oEmbed. It is image-only; video captures, webhooks, and team administration have no programmatic surface, and rate limits are unpublished.
Gyazo has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Solid API with minor gaps
Gyazo is a cloud-based screen capture, screenshot sharing, and short-form screen recording product launched in 2007 by Japanese engineer Isshu Rakusai and now operated by Helpfeel Inc. (the Kyoto-headquartered parent that rebranded from Nota Inc.
Vertical: misc, horizontal consumer/prosumer screen capture and sharing utility that does not map to any Supergood named vertical. A gamer presses the Gyazo hotkey to capture a region of their screen mid-session, and the resulting `gyazo.com/<hash>` URL auto-embeds in Discord chat for friends to see.
High in the consumer/prosumer screen-capture segment, particularly in Japan and within global gaming/streaming communities; mid-tier in business async-collaboration.
Gyazo holds three classes of customer data that matter to integrators.
Founded 2007 in Silicon Valley by Isshu Rakusai (then a student returning to Japan), making Gyazo roughly 19 years old as of 2026.
API surface is minimal, only image upload, list, show, search, and delete on a single resource; no endpoints for collections, teams, members, billing, analytics, or OCR text retrieval outside of search. Video recordings (a marquee Pro feature) cannot be uploaded or managed via the public API, image-only. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Loom (Atlassian), Snagit (TechSmith), Camtasia (TechSmith), Zight (formerly CloudApp), Droplr, ShareX. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.