Build Your Own Search Engine: JavaScript & Pexels API
Build a real image & video search engine using JavaScript and APIs.
Learn how to fetch, display, and download media like real products.
A portfolio-ready JavaScript API project for frontend developers.
📌 Project Overview
This is Week 40 of my 52 Weeks of 52 JavaScript Projects series.
In this project, we build a Pictures & Videos Search Engine using:
HTML, CSS, Vanilla JavaScript
Pexels API
Pagination, popup previews & downloads
This project mirrors real-world media platforms.
🧠 What You’ll Learn
✔ Working with media APIs
✔ Building search-driven UIs
✔ Pagination & load-more logic
✔ Image & video download handling
✔ Popup previews & UX patterns
⏱️ Chapters (Outcome-Based)
00:00 – Final App Demo
00:38 – Features Overview
02:57 – Project Setup
03:46 – Search Engine HTML Structure
08:07 – Styling the Media Grid
18:32 – JavaScript DOM Setup
21:53 – Pexels API Explained
25:18 – Fetching Search Results
33:09 – Rendering Images & Videos
42:19 – No Results UX
46:00 – Hover Details & Download
50:16 – Popup Media Preview
01:04:27 – Load More & Pagination
01:09:19 – One-Click Download
01:14:34 – Final Review
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📂 Check out the source code for this project on GitHub!
👉 [https://github.com/codehuntersharath/...]
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