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Tenor GIF API — search and discover GIFs and stickers, trending terms, featured content, and autocomplete suggestions.

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free tier50 calls/day
🔑Authentication

BYO key only — free key via the Tenor quickstart (Google Cloud). Pass _apiKey on the gateway URL.

Config with credentials
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-tenor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tenor/mcp?_apiKey=your_tenor_key"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Tools

categories

Return Tenor's GIF browse categories (e.g. trending, featured) with representative GIF previews; filterable by locale, type, and content safety level.

No parameters required.

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search_suggestions

Return Tenor search query suggestions related to a partial query string (q); useful for building GIF search autocomplete UIs.

No parameters required.

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autocomplete

Return Tenor autocomplete completions for a partial search term (q); returns up to limit completed search phrases ordered by popularity.

No parameters required.

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posts

Fetch specific Tenor GIFs/stickers by their post IDs (ids, comma-separated) — use to re-resolve media URLs and metadata for results returned earlier by search or featured.

No parameters required.

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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/tenor/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/tenor/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"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("search", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("tenor gif api — search and discover gifs and stickers, trending terms, featured content, and autocomplete suggestions");