Full open-contest feed, kept current as the rules change, one integration. For a single calendar or platform.
ContestGuard — the rules column nobody else publishes
Every photo-contest calendar lists the deadline and the fee. None of them answer the question that actually decides an entry: what does this contest take from the photographer, and what gets the photo disqualified? We decode that from the official rules for every open competition and serve it as a clean, maintained, machine-readable feed — rights grant, AI/editing policy, eligibility hard-stops, fees, deadlines and the upload spec. EU-hosted, no biometrics, no images.
See the live sample feed (JSON) →
16 open verified contests in the corpus · the sample returns 4
Full feed:
GET /api/contests/feed.json with a licensed key (header X-API-Key or ?key=).
What's in every record
- Rights grant — license scope, duration, exclusivity, copyright retention, attribution — the rights-grab risk, structured.
- AI / editing policy — a 6-value taxonomy (absolute ban → biological fidelity → assisted-editing-ok → AI permitted → AI required), so a platform can filter by what each contest actually allows.
- Eligibility hard-stops — residency, age, capture-date window, prior-publication, copyright ownership — each with the exact published rule text quoted.
- Fees & tiered deadlines — per-image and portfolio pricing, currency, early-bird ladders, fee-waiver groups.
- Upload spec — file types, min/max dimensions, size caps, colour profile, caption and watermark rules — the silent disqualifiers.
- Provenance — source URL, fetch date and a confidence flag on every record, so you can show your users where the data came from.
Who licenses it
- Contest & open-call calendars — differentiate beyond deadlines with a rights/AI column your competitors don't have.
- Photo platforms — gallery, portfolio and community SaaS adding a credible “contests” surface without building a rules team.
- Photography schools & programs — give students a vetted, current map of where their work can actually go.
- AI-disclosure & rights-compliance tooling — a maintained source of truth for what each competition's AI policy requires in 2026.
Licensing
Everything in Indie, higher rate limits, priority coverage requests, and on-request contest ingestion from a URL or poster.
SLA, custom fields, white-label data, and a direct line for rules questions. For compliance tooling at scale.
Indicative pricing — every licence is scoped to your volume and use. The corpus is self-expanding: our ingestion pipeline extracts a structured record from any contest URL or poster, so coverage grows on request rather than capping at today's 29 manifests.
Request feed access
Tell us what you're building and the contests you need covered — we'll send a sample scoped to your use and a licence quote.
Email press@winphoto.io →EU-hosted (eu-west-1) · no biometric processing · GDPR-clean data provenance on every record.