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Are.na Visual Research

Are.na Visual Research MCP Connector for Claude

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Are.na as an MCP: search visual research channels, pull blocks (images, links, text, PDFs) with metadata, explore user collections and research thread maps — public v2 API, no key needed for discovery.

6 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Are.na — the visual research and moodboard platform used by designers, artists and researchers — as a single MCP server.

What you can do

  • Search channels — curated collections of images, links, text and PDFs on any topic (type design, brutalism, colour theory...)
  • Channel contents — pull every block: images with metadata, links with descriptions, text excerpts, PDFs
  • User collections — browse all public channels of any user
  • Research thread maps — channels connected to a channel: how research topics interlink

Why Are.na?

Unlike algorithmic feeds, Are.na is human-curated: researchers connect primary sources, articles and images into openly browsable structures. Its public API v2 gives you all of it without keys for public content.

Who is this for?

Design researchers, artists, curators, trend scouts, moodboard builders and AI agents that need human-curated visual references.

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6 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_channel

g. "arena-influences"): title, user, follower_count, length (block count), status (public/closed/private). Use slug from search_channels. Get a channel profile: title, user, collaborator count, block count, status

get_channel_contents

Pagination via per/page. The core research tool for Are.na. Get the blocks inside a channel: images, links, text, PDFs with metadata

list_user_channels

user id from get_user. slug comes from the channel title slugified (or use the full response). List all public channels of a user (their research collections)

get_user

user id comes from a channel response (user.id). Get an Are.na user profile: name, bio, follower counts, channels

get_channel_connections

Shows how research flows across Are.na. Get connections (blocks linked in from other channels) — the research thread map

search_channels

Channels are curated collections of images, links, text and PDFs. Use slug in get_channel_contents. Pagination via per/page (total_pages returned). Search public Are.na channels by keyword (visual research collections)

See how to talk to your AI agent using Are.na Visual Research.

Find Are.na channels about type design

🧩 **Channel search: type design** Top results: Type Design (curated collections of typefaces, specimens, foundries)... Each channel has a slug for pulling its blocks. Want the latest blocks from the biggest channel?

Pull the latest blocks from the Arena Influences channel

🧩 **Arena Influences (128 blocks, by Charles Broskoski)** Latest blocks: links to essays, images, PDFs with metadata and content_html for each. This is the channel that inspired Are.na itself — a research thread map of its connections is available too.

Not for any discovery tool in this MCP — public channel search, contents, users and connections all work without a token. An OAuth2 access token (registered at are.na/apps) is only needed for private channels and write operations.

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