MCP server for Pexels — search photos and videos, and browse collections
Pexels MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. MCP server for Pexels — search photos and videos, and browse collections.
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the Pexels API. Built in Rust, exposes photo search, video search, and curated/featured content as MCP tools.
Once Pexels is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
search_photos — Search photos by query with optional orientation/size/color/locale filterscurated_photos — Get a paginated list of curated, hand-picked photosget_photo — Retrieve a single photo by IDsearch_videos — Search videos by query with optional orientation/size/locale filterspopular_videos — Get popular videos with optional dimension and duration filtersget_video — Retrieve a single video by IDfeatured_collections — List featured collections (themed sets of media)collection_media — List media in a specific collection (filterable by photos/videos)Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Pexels's toolset — search_photos, curated_photos, get_photo and 5 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by codeChap; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Pexels's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_photos | Search photos by query with optional orientation/size/color/locale filters |
| curated_photos | Get a paginated list of curated, hand-picked photos |
| get_photo | Retrieve a single photo by ID |
| search_videos | Search videos by query with optional orientation/size/locale filters |
| popular_videos | Get popular videos with optional dimension and duration filters |
| get_video | Retrieve a single video by ID |
| featured_collections | List featured collections (themed sets of media) |
| collection_media | List media in a specific collection (filterable by photos/videos) |
{
"mcpServers": {
"pexels": {
"command": "/path/to/mcp-server-pexels"
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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