# iLoveAPI (slim)

> REST API from iLovePDF S.L. of Barcelona for merging, splitting, compressing, converting, protecting, editing and running OCR on PDFs, with image tools and signature requests. Tasks run in four calls, billed in credits.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iloveapi.md (~5,850 tokens) · this version ~1,580 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iloveapi.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iloveapi
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-10

**E · 42/100 · rank #897 of 950 · #4 in PDF tools · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Per-tool credit costs are public, 2,500 free credits arrive each month on a sign-up that asks for no card, and five official libraries are MIT. No OpenAPI file, status page or published rate-limit numbers were found, and the governing terms date from 14 February 2017.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: iLovePDF S.L. · category: PDF tools · legal entity: iLovePDF S.L. · provenance 66/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.ilovepdf.com/v1` (HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Proprietary service under the iLovePDF API terms. The client libraries are MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Free tier: 2,500 credits a month on registration, not valid for digital signatures (https://www.iloveapi.com/pricing)
- Credit costs: Merge 5 a task. Split 5 a file. Compress, Office to PDF, rotate, protect, unlock, watermark, PDF/A, HTML to PDF and edit 10 a file. OCR and PDF to Markdown 5 a page. Forms detect and Smart split 20 a page. AI Summariser 30 a page. Image tools 2 a file. Digital signature 80
- Plans: Monthly or yearly subscriptions (yearly 20% less) and prepaid packages that do not expire. Prices in euros including VAT are drawn by script and were not read
- Workflow: Start, upload, process, download. `POST /v1/task/next` chains a second tool on the output without a new upload
- Inputs: Multipart file upload with optional chunks, or a public URL in `cloud_file`
- Regions: eu, us, fr, de, pl, in, sg, chosen in the start call
- Rate limits: Tier-dependent, reported in response headers, no numbers published. Open tasks are capped at 10% of the monthly file limit
- Webhooks: `task.completed` and `task.failed`, plus signature events, set per URL in the user area
- Data retention: The reference says files are deleted after an hour, or more by tier, and elsewhere after two hours. The terms give a maximum of 48 hours. Signed documents are kept up to 5 years
- Libraries: PHP v1.4.1 (22 July 2026), .NET v1.6.4 (3 September 2026), Python v1.1.0 (28 July 2026), Node.js 0.3.1, Ruby 1.3.4 (8 July 2024), all MIT
- Integrations: Zapier, Make, Power Automate, n8n, WordPress and Odoo. No MCP server found

- Scores: Reliability 26, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 37, Agent ergonomics 61, Security & auth 41, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 62, Transparency & trust 52 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Graded as a hosted API. · Schema & documentation, No OpenAPI file or other machine-readable contract was found (0). · Agent ergonomics, Responses are small JSON and output arrives as a file or ZIP, but every job takes four calls and the start call's server must be reused (12)… · Security & auth, Each project has a public and a secret key, requests carry a JWT signed with the secret that expires after one hour, and domain and IP filte… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, The .NET library v1.6.4 was tagged on 3 September 2026, 36 days before this check (20). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with terms naming iLovePDF S.L., last modified 14 February 2017, and MIT client libraries (15).
- Sources: 17, open questions: 8, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: pdf.convert, pdf.merge, pdf.generate, pdf.extract, docs.ocr
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/iloveapi.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/iloveapi.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iloveapi from a page on iloveapi.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/ilovepdf/ilovepdf-python, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Run four calls per job. `GET /v1/start/{tool}/{region}` returns a `server` and a `task`, then send upload, process and download to that server
2. Sign a JWT with the project secret key and send it as `Authorization: Bearer`. Tokens expire after one hour
3. Download results promptly. The reference says files are deleted one to two hours after processing, depending on tier
4. Back off exponentially on 429 and read the rate-limit headers on each response. No limit numbers are published
5. Add `debug=true` to any request to have the server echo the parameters without processing or spending credits

## Connect

```bash
pip install ilovepdf
```

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.ilovepdf.com/v1/auth -d "public_key=$ILOVEPDF_PUBLIC_KEY"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/iloveapi

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