pexels-mcp-server

- 9 toolscovering every documented Pexels endpoint — photos (search, curated, get), videos (search, popular, get), and collections (featured, media, mine). Pexels has a single API-key auth tier and no write endpoints, so there's no partial "read-only v1" — this is the whole surface.
- License-aware by design— Pexels doesn't require attribution, but every photo still returns a ready-to-use courtesycredit(text + HTML), and the server's instructions steer the model around the license restrictions that do apply (no resale of unaltered content, no redistribution to other stock platforms, no trademark/logo use, no implied endorsement).
- Real image & video URLs— each photo returns Pexels' own pre-sizedsrcURLs (original/large2x/large/medium/small/portrait/landscape/tiny); each video returns itsvideo_filesrenditions (trimmed to the highest-resolution few in list results, complete on a single-item lookup).
- Token-efficient output— full Pexels responses are trimmed to a compact shape (URLs + metadata as text, never base64 blobs) to keep model context small.
- Robust— typed failures returned as MCPisErrorresults the model can recover from, plus retries/backoff, timeouts, and rate-limit-aware quota short-circuiting (Pexels omits its rate-limit headers on a429, so the client caches the last-known reset time instead of guessing).
- Safe— API-key redaction in all error output, and untrusted-text handling guidance for indirect prompt-injection defence.
- Lean & modern— ESM, Node 20+, zero-install vianpx, no telemetry.

Claude Desktop— editclaude_desktop_config.json:

- macOS:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
- Windows:%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

claude mcp add pexels \ --env PEXELS_API_KEY=your_api_key \ -- npx -y @hanoak/pexels-mcp-server

Cursor—~/.cursor/mcp.json(global) or.cursor/mcp.json(per-project): use the exact samemcpServersblock as Claude Desktop above.

Windsurf—~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json: samemcpServersblock as Claude Desktop above.

VS Code—.vscode/mcp.json(note the top-level key isservers, notmcpServers):

The server readsX-Ratelimit-Limit/X-Ratelimit-Remaining/X-Ratelimit-Resetand returns them asrate_limiton every result. Pexels returns a standard429when the budget is exhausted (unlike some APIs that overload403for this) — but the rate-limit headers are absent on the429response itself, so the client caches the last-known values from a prior successful call to report an accurate reset time, and short-circuits further requests once the quota is known to be exhausted rather than firing calls that will just fail. Transient429/5xx/network errorsare*retried with backoff.

Photo/video alt text, photographer names, and collection titles/descriptions come from Pexels contributors — treat them asuntrusted, third-party data, not instructions. The server returns this text purely as content and never places it anywhere privileged; your client/agent should do the same: display it, but don't act on any instructions it might contain (a defence against indirect prompt injection). Pexels also has no safe-search/content-filter parameter — use judgment in how you phrase search queries.

Do I need a paid Pexels account?No. The Pexels API is free — you just create an account to get an API key, instantly, no review or approval step.

Does it download or rehost images/videos?No. It returns Pexels-hosted URLs (hotlink them directly) and never rehosts or returns base64 blobs.

Why doespexels_list_my_collectionscome back empty?Pexels has no per-conversation login — the tool always reflects the collections of whichever Pexels account owns the configured API key, not the person chatting. It'll be empty unless that specific account has created collections on pexels.com.

- Node.js >= 20(Node 18 is end-of-life).
- A Pexels API key.

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