# midjourney/midjourney-v7/text-to-image

> Midjourney v7 text-to-image capabilities leverage deeply evolved semantic understanding to instantly and precisely transform your words into visual masterpieces with extreme cinematic texture and aesthetic composition.

## Overview

- **Endpoint**: `https://api.shortapi.ai/api/v1/job/create`
- **Model ID**: `midjourney/midjourney-v7/text-to-image`
- **Category**: text-to-image
- **Kind**: inference

## Pricing

The billing rate for Fast mode is $0.04 per request.

For more details, please check our pricing page.

## API Information

This model can be used via our HTTP API or more conveniently via our client libraries.
See the input and output schema below, as well as the usage examples.

### Input Schema

The API accepts the following input parameters:

- **`mode`** (`string`, _required_):
  Image generation mode
  - Default: `fast`
  - Options: "fast"

- **`prompt`** (`string`, _required_):
  Positive text prompt. The text must not contain '-' and other special characters
  - Examples: "An action shot of a black lab swimming..."

- **`negative_prompt`** (`string`, _optional_):
  Negative text prompt. The text must not contain '-' and other special characters

- **`aspect_ratio`** (`string`, _required_):
  The aspect ratio of the generated image
  - Options: "9:16", "2:3", "3:4", "4:5", "5:6", "1:1", "6:5", "5:4", "4:3", "3:2", "16:9"

- **`performance`** (`string`, _optional_):
  Image Quality
  - Default: `balance`
  - Options: "speed", "balance", "quality"

- **`stylization`** (`int`, _optional_):
  Controls the artistic style intensity
  - Default: `100`
  - Range: `0` to `1000`

- **`chaos`** (`int`, _optional_):
  Controls the diversity of generated images
  - Default: `0`
  - Range: `0` to `100`

- **`weirdness`** (`int`, _optional_):
  Controls the creativity and uniqueness
  - Default: `0`
  - Range: `0` to `3000`

### Output Schema

The API returns a JSON response with a `job_id` for tracking the request status.

**Create Job Response:**
```json
{
  "code": 0,
  "data": {
    "amount": "0.02",
    "job_id": "<JOB_ID>"
  }
}
```

**Query Job Result (when status is 2, meaning succeeded):**
```json
{
  "code": 0,
  "data": {
    "status": 2,
    "result": {
      "images": [{ "url": "https://..." }]
    }
  }
}
```

## Use Example

To use this model, make an HTTP POST request to the API endpoint, then poll for results using the returned `job_id`.

### Bash (cURL)
```bash
# Step 1: Create a job
response=$(curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.shortapi.ai/api/v1/job/create \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $SHORTAPI_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
  "model": "midjourney/midjourney-v7/text-to-image",
  "args": {
    "mode": "fast",
    "prompt": "Astronaut in a Jungle by Syd Mead, (absurdres, highres, ultra detailed), extremely detailed CG unity 8k wallpaper, intricate details",
    "aspect_ratio": "1:1"
  },
  "callback_url": "CALLBACK_URL"
}')
JOB_ID=$(echo "$response" | grep -o '"job_id": *"[^"]*"' | sed 's/"job_id": *//; s/"//g')

# Step 2: Poll for results
curl --request GET \
  --url "https://api.shortapi.ai/api/v1/job/query?id=$JOB_ID" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $SHORTAPI_KEY"
```

### JavaScript (Fetch API)
```javascript
// Step 1: Create a job
const response = await fetch(`https://api.shortapi.ai/api/v1/job/create`, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${SHORTAPI_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "midjourney/midjourney-v7/text-to-image",
    "args": {
      "mode": "fast",
      "prompt": "Astronaut in a Jungle by Syd Mead, (absurdres, highres, ultra detailed), extremely detailed CG unity 8k wallpaper, intricate details",
      "aspect_ratio": "1:1"
    },
    "callback_url": "CALLBACK_URL"
})
});
const data = await response.json();
const JOB_ID = data.job_id;

// Step 2: Poll for results
const result = await fetch(`https://api.shortapi.ai/api/v1/job/query?id=${JOB_ID}`, {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${SHORTAPI_KEY}`
  }
});
const resultData = await result.json();
console.log(resultData);
```

### Python (Requests)
```python
import requests

# Step 1: Create a job
url = "https://api.shortapi.ai/api/v1/job/create"
payload = {
  "model": "midjourney/midjourney-v7/text-to-image",
  "args": {
    "mode": "fast",
    "prompt": "Astronaut in a Jungle by Syd Mead, (absurdres, highres, ultra detailed), extremely detailed CG unity 8k wallpaper, intricate details",
    "aspect_ratio": "1:1"
  },
  "callback_url": "CALLBACK_URL"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {SHORTAPI_KEY}",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload)
data = response.json()
JOB_ID = data.get("job_id")

# Step 2: Poll for results
result_url = f"https://api.shortapi.ai/api/v1/job/query?id={JOB_ID}"
result = requests.get(result_url, headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {SHORTAPI_KEY}"})
print(result.json())
```