Pexafy/pexafy-mcp

Ask. Choose together. Put them to work.
🗣️ Ask, in your own words
Tell your assistant what you are working on, the way you would tell a colleague: *“I'm writing a short article about Kyoto in autumn. Find photos of a temple garden with red maple leaves.”* It writes the search; Pexafy matches the scene, not tags.
🤝 Choose together
Sixteen photographs come back. Open one large, swipe, heart the keepers, press **≈** for more like it: your picks go back to the assistant, **in your order**. Or simply answer in words: *“the third one, but wider”*.
🚀 Put them to work
The assistant carries on with them: the article with its photos in place, the slide, the landing page, the post. Each photograph keeps its licence and the credit line to display, and comes as an **image file** when the work needs one.
With the grid, or without it
| In a chat that draws it | In an agent, a terminal or a script |
|---|---|
| **ChatGPT, Claude, VS Code, Cursor.** The photographs appear as a grid in the conversation. You see them, open them, like them; the assistant works from what you picked. | **Claude Code, Codex, any MCP client.** Each result arrives as a link with its licence and credit line. The assistant chooses, fetches the file and places it in your Markdown, HTML, slides or CMS. |
Add it in 30 seconds
| Where | How |
|---|---|
| **VS Code** | Install in VS Code, or code --add-mcp '{"name":"pexafy","type":"http","url":"https://mcp.pexafy.com/mcp"}' |
| **ChatGPT** | Add Pexafy from ChatGPT's plugin directory |
| **Claude** | *Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector*, then https://mcp.pexafy.com/mcp |
| **Claude Code** | claude mcp add --transport http pexafy https://mcp.pexafy.com/mcp |
| **Cursor** | Add to Cursor |
| **Any MCP client** | Streamable HTTP at https://mcp.pexafy.com/mcp |
**Nothing to install, no API key to paste.** In VS Code, Cursor and other editors you can search right away, without an account. ChatGPT and Claude ask you to sign in to Pexafy once; a free account is enough.
Five tools, all read-only
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_photos | Photographs described in one sentence, in any language, optionally only landscape, portrait or square. |
| search_photos_by_image | Photographs that look like a picture (a link, an upload) or like a Pexafy photo: *“like this, but at night”*. |
| get_photo_file_by_photo_id | One photograph as an image file, up to 1280 px wide, with its credit line. |
| get_grid_selected_photos | The photographs you liked in the grid, in the order you chose. |