🧙🏻 Integrated TinyPNG MCP server, quickly use TinyPNG through LLMs.
🧙🏻 Integrated TinyPNG MCP server, quickly use TinyPNG through LLMs. Exposed over MCP by the tinypng mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
To install TinyPNG MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at @smithery/cli on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Usage — The Usage tool exposed by this serverTools — The Tools tool exposed by this serverYou will need one environment variable: TINYPNG_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Tinypng's toolset — Usage, Tools — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by aiyogg; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Tinypng's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Usage | The Usage tool exposed by this server. |
| Tools | The Tools tool exposed by this server. |
2. Edit the `mcp.json` file
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"tinypng": {
"command": "bun", // or "node"
"args": ["/path/to/tinypng-mcp-server/src/index.ts"], // or "dist/index.js"
"env": {
"TINYPNG_API_KEY": "your-tinypng-api-key"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| TINYPNG_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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