Unsplash's dataset is now open source

When we first released the Unsplash API in 2016, we never dreamed that it would become as popular and useful as it has. What started as a low-key late night slack message exchange-- 'Wouldn't it be cool if we made an API?'--turned into one of the world's most used APIs, bringing 2 million open images from the Unsplash community directly into the workflows of creators, enhancing over 1 billion creations. Earlier this year we had a similar moment on our team Slack: would't it be cool if we made the data we use to run Unsplash open for anyone to use? Today we do just that. We're releasing the most complete high-quality open image dataset ever, free for anyone to use to further research in machine learning, image quality, search engines, and more.