---
title: Image Metadata Remover
slug: remove-image-metadata
url: https://apyverse.com/apyhub/service/remove-image-metadata
provider: ApyHub
categories: [File Manipulation, File Security, Image Processing]
tags: [metadata-removal, image-sanitization, exif-stripping, gps-removal, image-processing]
auth: api_key
---

# Image Metadata Remover

Strip metadata from images uploaded as files or fetched from a URL. Returns cleaned binary output or a signed link, with optional EXIF and GPS removal.

## Endpoints

| Method | Path | Description | Atoms |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| POST | `processor/image/remove-metadata/file` | What it does Strips metadata from an uploaded image sent as multipart form data and returns the pro… | 30 |
| POST | `processor/image/remove-metadata/file/url` | What it does Strips metadata from an uploaded image and returns a JSON object containing a data URI… | 30 |
| POST | `processor/image/remove-metadata/url/file` | What it does Downloads an image from a URL and strips metadata from it. The request body supplies t… | 30 |
| POST | `processor/image/remove-metadata/file-urls` | What it does Fetches an image from a signed URL, removes metadata from the file according to the re… | 30 |

## About

## What it does
Image Metadata Remover strips metadata from images you send by file upload or by URL. Use it when you need to remove embedded information before sharing, storing, or publishing an image.

Send an `image` in multipart form data, or provide a `url` to fetch the image remotely. You can optionally pass `keys` to target specific writable tags, or leave `keys` empty to clear all writable tags present. For GPS data, set `group` to `gps`; that is the only supported group in URL mode. The service returns the cleaned image as binary data for download, or a signed `data` URI when you use the link-based endpoint.

This is useful for privacy-sensitive workflows, content pipelines, and user-upload sanitisation. For example, you can remove camera or location metadata before storing profile photos, or clear GPS tags from images shared in a customer portal.

Image Metadata Remover keeps the response focused on the stripped image itself, so you can plug it directly into upload, storage, or delivery steps without extra parsing.

## Usage

Authenticate with an ApyHub API key in the `apy-token` header.
Full docs and a live playground: https://apyverse.com/apyhub/service/remove-image-metadata