# Download stock photos directly inside Adobe XD

**URL:** <https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/download-stock-photos-directly-inside-adobe-xd/1696>\
**Category:** UXP Plugin API\
**Tags:** showcase\
**Created:** [March 30, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/download-stock-photos-directly-inside-adobe-xd/1696 "2020-03-30T15:29:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![paolo.agostinetto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/paolo.agostinetto/32/754_2.png) [@paolo.agostinetto](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/paolo.agostinetto)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/download-stock-photos-directly-inside-adobe-xd/1696/1 "2020-03-30T15:29:55Z")

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This simple extension allows you to download stock photos very quickly inside your Adobe XD documents.

Install from here: [https://xd.adobelanding.com/en/xd-plugin-download/?name=c1d8526b](https://xd.adobelanding.com/en/xd-plugin-download/?name=c1d8526b)

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/xdplugins/original/1X/941b95d9e1ce4e9c79da650b89d2c2acee1e0af9.jpeg "StockSolo preview") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znjur49XYFM)

The plugin is also available for Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator: [http://stocksolo.com/](http://stocksolo.com/)

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**Author:** ![valentindb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/valentindb/32/1372_2.png) [@valentindb](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/valentindb)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/download-stock-photos-directly-inside-adobe-xd/1696/2 "2020-04-04T07:29:59Z")

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Nice! Installed and tested, it works perfectly.  
Looking forward to see Drag & Drop (from Plugin to Artboards) added to the API. This will make this kind of plugin so much nicer to use 🙂

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**Author:** ![cpryland](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/cpryland/32/1172_2.png) [@cpryland](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/cpryland)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/download-stock-photos-directly-inside-adobe-xd/1696/3 "2020-04-04T15:29:26Z")

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Nice! What sites are you using for stock photos?

Even the “free” sites like Unsplash and Pexels require some kind of API keys that limit downloads/month and become costly if you have many users…

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**Author:** ![paolo.agostinetto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/paolo.agostinetto/32/754_2.png) [@paolo.agostinetto](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/paolo.agostinetto)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/download-stock-photos-directly-inside-adobe-xd/1696/4 "2020-04-06T09:53:40Z")

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Thanks!

We support Unsplash, Pexels, and Pixabay for now. The peak in API usage was 500 req/hour on the Unsplash API and the limit is 5000 req/hour so, for now, they are enough 😉

If we manage to exceed the limitation we would probably round-robin the API vendor to maximize the available requests. Unsplash and Pixabay both have 5000 req/hour each and Pexels has 200 req/hour so in theory, we have more than 10k req/hour which is plenty. I sure hope it will come to that but their “free tier” will probably be enough.