Flickr

Flickr MCP Connector for Claude

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Browse, search, and manage photo collections on Flickr with access to one of the largest creative photography communities online.

12 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Connect your Flickr account to any AI agent and take full control of your public photo discovery and image management workflows through natural conversation.

What you can do

  • Visual Orchestration — Search across billions of public photos programmatically using keywords and retrieve detailed technical metadata including dimensions and source URLs
  • Trend Intelligence — Monitor real-time 'hot' tags and explore photos marked as 'interesting' by Flickr algorithms to keep your content strategies culturally relevant
  • User & Album Navigation — List public albums (photosets) and retrieve complete photo directories for specific user IDs to maintain a high-fidelity visual context
  • Metadata Retrieval — Access granular details for specific photos, including titles, descriptions, and capture dates directly through your agent
  • Community Discovery — Search for public groups and retrieve photos from group pools to identify niche visual communities and content patterns

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Retrieve your API Key from the Flickr App Garden (Create an App)
  3. Start discovering and managing public visual media from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client

No more manual scrubbing through photo galleries to find specific references. Your AI acts as your dedicated visual research assistant.

Who is this for?

  • Content Curators — instantly find relevant public images for mood boards and research using natural language queries
  • Creative Strategists — monitor visual trends and trending tags across the Flickr community without leaving your workspace
  • Developers — integrate high-quality public photo search and album metadata into custom internal tools and dashboards
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12 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_group_photos

Get photos from a group pool

get_hot_tags

Get a list of currently hot tags

get_interesting_photos

Get interesting photos from Flickr

get_photo_info

Get details of a specific photo

get_album_photos

Get photos in a specific album

get_recent_photos

Get recent public photos

get_user_info

Get information about a Flickr user

get_user_albums

List public albums (photosets) for a user

get_user_popular_tags

Get popular tags for a user

get_user_public_photos

Get public photos of a user

search_groups

Search for Flickr groups

search_photos

Search for public photos on Flickr

See how to talk to your AI agent using Flickr.

Search for photos of 'Cyberpunk Architecture' on Flickr.

Retrieving photos... I've found 5 stunning images of Cyberpunk Architecture. They feature neon-lit cityscapes from Tokyo and Hong Kong. Would you like the direct source links for these photos?

Show me what tags are trending on Flickr right now.

Fetching hot tags... Currently, trending tags include 'spring2026', 'astrophotography', and 'street-style'. Would you like to see the most 'interesting' photos associated with any of these?

List the public albums for user '12345678@N00'.

Retrieving albums for user 12345678@N00... I've found 3 public photosets: 'Summer Trip 2025', 'Macro Nature', and 'Black & White Portraits'. Which album would you like to explore?

Visit the [**Flickr App Garden**](https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/), choose 'Apply for your Key online', and follow the prompts to create a non-commercial or commercial app.

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