Pexels

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Pexels — search and browse free stock photos and videos, curated collections, and featured media.

8tools
0msauth
free tier50 calls/day

Tools

photo_curated

Fetch Pexels' curated editorial photo feed; returns paginated photo objects with image URLs in multiple sizes (original, large, medium, small, tiny) and photographer info.

No parameters required.

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photo

Fetch full metadata for a single Pexels photo by numeric id, including all sized image URLs, photographer name/URL, dimensions, and alt text.

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video

Fetch full metadata for a single Pexels video by numeric id, including file URLs at all available resolutions, duration, width, height, and videographer attribution.

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collection_media

Fetch all photos and videos inside a specific Pexels collection by string id; returns paginated mixed media objects with URLs and metadata.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pexels/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pexels/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"photo_search","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("photo_search", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("pexels — search and browse free stock photos and videos, curated collections, and featured media");