Replicate’s API now has an endpoint for searching public models.

To use it, make a QUERY HTTP request using your search query as the plaintext body of the request:

curl -s -X QUERY \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REPLICATE_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  -d "face" \
  https://api.replicate.com/v1/models

The response will be a paginated JSON object containing an array of model objects:

{
  "next": null,
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "url": "https://replicate.com/acme/hello-world",
      "owner": "acme",
      "name": "hello-world",
      "description": "A tiny model that says hello",
      "visibility": "public",
      "github_url": "https://github.com/replicate/cog-examples",
      "paper_url": null,
      "license_url": null,
      "run_count": 5681081,
      "cover_image_url": "...",
      "default_example": {...},
      "latest_version": {...}
    }
  ]
}

For more details, check out the HTTP API reference docs.

You can also the download metadata for all public models on Replicate using the list public models API if you need more fine-grained control or want to build your own implementation of model search.