September 13, 2025

Photu Search-R3TiR3D

Screenshot of Photu Search app

Photu Search is a web app that lets you search images across Unsplash, Pixabay, and Pexels, with a simple React frontend and Node backend for provider proxying and authentication.

🧩 Features

  • Search images from Unsplash, Pixabay, and Pexels
  • JWT-based signup/login (demo: local users)
  • Download/save images (no metrics)
  • Pagination with selectable page size
  • Backend merges & deduplicates provider responses
  • Responsive React UI

πŸ’‘ Technologies used

  • React (frontend)
  • Node.js (backend API, auth, provider proxy)
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript

πŸ”‘ Providers & API

  • Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexels (API keys required)
  • Backend merges results, dedupes, and normalizes response shape

🌐 Repo / Demo

πŸ‘‰ View Repository

πŸ‘‰ View Demo

πŸ–ΌοΈ Screenshots

Demo 1 Demo 2

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