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# Pika Style Pika API

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Pika API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. Pika API generates styled images and screenshots from customizable templates. The API accepts a template ID and dynamic parameters, then renders a high-quality image suitable for social media graphics, marketing materials, and automated content generation pipelines.

## For AI agents

Generate styled images from customizable templates by passing dynamic content parameters. Produces social media graphics, marketing visuals, and branded screenshots.

## Scope

Does not handle video rendering, image editing, or file storage - use for template-based image generation only.

## Capabilities

- Render images from pre-configured templates with dynamic content injection
- Generate social media graphics with custom text, colors, and branding
- Produce styled screenshots for product marketing and documentation
- Create branded visuals at scale through template-based generation
- Output images in standard formats for direct use in content pipelines

## Use cases

### Social Media Content Generation

Generate branded social media graphics at scale by passing dynamic content to Pika templates. The API renders images with custom text, colors, and layouts, enabling automated creation of post graphics for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram without manual design work.

Example prompt: Generate an image from template ID 'social-post-1' with title 'Product Launch' and brand color #FF5733

### Product Screenshot Automation

Create polished product screenshots automatically by rendering web content through styled Pika templates. The API produces marketing-ready visuals with device frames, backgrounds, and branding overlays, eliminating manual screenshot editing for product pages and documentation.

Example prompt: Render a product screenshot using template with a browser frame mockup and custom background gradient

### Content Pipeline Image Rendering

Integrate Pika API into automated content pipelines to generate images on demand. Blog platforms, newsletter tools, and documentation systems call the API to produce header images, thumbnails, and open graph previews dynamically as new content is published.

Example prompt: Generate an open graph image with article title and author name for a new blog post

### AI Agent Visual Content Creation

AI agents use the Pika API through Jentic to generate images without manual design tools. Agents search for image generation operations by intent, load the template rendering schema, and execute calls with Jentic handling bearer token authentication and response parsing.

Example prompt: Search Jentic for 'generate image from template', load the Pika templates endpoint schema, and render an image with custom text parameters

## Key endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| POST | `/templates/{templateId}/images` | Generate an image from a template with custom parameters |

## Key resources

- **Images** — Generate images from templates with dynamic content parameters

## AI readiness

This API is usable in Jentic One now. Its AI-readiness score against Jentic's framework shows where it stands today and where improvements would make it even easier for agents to use.

- **Score:** 71 / 100
- **Maturity:** AI-Aware
- **Dimensions:**
  - Foundational Compliance: 100 / 100
  - Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility: 65 / 100
  - AI-Readiness & Agent Experience: 55 / 100
  - Agent Usability: 94 / 100
  - Security: 60 / 100
  - AI Discoverability: 75 / 100
- **View full report:** https://jentic.com/apis/pika.style/pika-style/scorecard
- **How the score is calculated:** https://docs.jentic.com/reference/api-readiness-framework/overview/
- **More about the dimensions:** https://docs.jentic.com/reference/api-readiness-framework/specification/#dimensional-model-overview

### Score it yourself

Every API in the directory is allowlisted, so you can re-score it with no key required.

- **Score your own API:** https://jentic.com/scorecard.md
- **Scoring CLI agent skill:** https://github.com/jentic/jentic-api-scorecard/blob/main/skills/jentic-api-scorecard/SKILL.md

```sh
npx @jentic/api-scorecard-cli score <openapi-url>
```

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring the Pika API by hand means setting up its bearer auth and coding the template-to-image render call yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import Pika from the API Directory, store the API key once, and your agent calls it.
- **Permission scoping:** Pika puts the template id in the URL path (`/templates/{templateId}/images`), so a rule can pin your agent to one template: it can generate images from that template and nothing else. You choose the operations it may call, so nothing outside image generation is included unless you add it.
- **Credential handling:** Your Pika bearer token is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'generate an image from a template', and Jentic returns the matching Pika operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

## Related APIs

- **ApiFlash API** — ApiFlash captures website screenshots without templates, rendering any URL as an image
- **Apify API** — Apify provides web scraping to extract content that can then be rendered as images through Pika templates
- **Short.io API** — Short.io creates branded short links for sharing Pika-generated images across marketing channels

## FAQ

### Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Pika API?

Pika does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Pika API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

### What authentication does the Pika API use?

The Pika API uses Bearer token authentication. You include your API key in the Authorization header as a Bearer token. Through Jentic, this token is stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected automatically into requests.

### Can I generate images with custom text and branding using the Pika API?

Yes. The POST `/templates/{templateId}/images` endpoint accepts dynamic parameters including text content, colors, and layout options. You select a template and pass your custom values to render a branded image.

### What image formats does the Pika API output?

The API generates images in standard web formats including PNG and JPEG. The output format depends on the template configuration and can typically be specified in the request parameters.

### How do I generate an image through the Pika API using Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'generate image from template', load the `/templates/{templateId}/images` operation schema, and execute with your template ID and content parameters. Jentic handles Bearer token injection and returns the rendered image URL.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Pika API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which Pika operations and credentials the agent may use. Pika puts the template ID in the URL path of POST `/templates/{templateId}/images`, so a rule can pin your agent to a single template, letting it render images from that template and nothing else. You pick the operations it may call, so nothing beyond image generation is available unless you add it, and your bearer token stays with your instance rather than the agent.