Google shuts down Tenor API, forcing apps to find alternative GIF pickers
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Jess Weatherbed
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Google is shutting down the Tenor API, which allowed other apps and platforms to integrate GIF search functionality. While the Tenor website itself will remain live, platforms like X, Discord, Bluesky, and WhatsApp that relied on the API will need to migrate to alternative GIF picker services. Google acquired Tenor in 2018 and will continue using it across its own products.
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· 3 pulledThe GIF-picking interfaces in some of your favorite online platforms might look different going forward, as Google prepares to shut down the Tenor API today.
While the Tenor website, along with its searchable GIF library, will remain live, platforms like X, Discord, Bluesky, and WhatsApp that previously integrated the API are now having to migrate to alternative GIF picker services.
Google acquired the Tenor GIF platform in 2018.
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