Ideogram Hello World

Overview

Generate your first AI image with Ideogram. Demonstrates the legacy /generate endpoint (JSON body) and the V3 /v1/ideogram-v3/generate endpoint (multipart form). Both return temporary image URLs that must be downloaded promptly.

Prerequisites

• Completed ideogram-install-auth setup
• IDEOGRAM_API_KEY environment variable set
• Node.js 18+ or Python 3.10+

Instructions

Step 1: Quick Test with curl

set -euo pipefail
# Legacy endpoint (V_2 model, JSON body)
curl -s -X POST https://api.ideogram.ai/generate \
  -H "Api-Key: $IDEOGRAM_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{