Getty Images

Getty Images MCP Connector for Claude

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Manage stock media via Getty Images — search millions of creative and editorial photos, handle video discovery, and download assets directly from any AI agent.

10 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Connect your Getty Images account to any AI agent and take full control of your stock media research and asset procurement through natural conversation.

What you can do

  • Stock Media Orchestration — Search over 500M editorial and creative images to retrieve asset IDs, titles, and preview URLs natively within your chat
  • Creative Discovery — Identify bounded creative images pre-filtered for commercial, advertising, and marketing use flawlessly
  • Editorial Auditing — Search across news, sports, entertainment, and archival photography to track specific historical events and global trends synchronousy
  • Video Library Management — Browse stock video libraries and retrieve duration, aspect ratio, and available resolution metadata securely
  • Visual Similarity Search — Find visually similar assets by providing source IDs to discover related compositions and aesthetic patterns natively
  • Lightbox Collection Oversight — List and manage your Lightbox collections to organize selected assets across different projects limitlessly
  • Asset Procurement — Execute direct download mutations to consume corporate quota limits and retrieve high-resolution download URLs securely

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Enter your Getty Images API Key (found in the Getty Developer Portal)
  3. Start managing your stock media from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

Who is this for?

  • Content Creators & Editors — search for high-quality stock photos and videos using natural language without leaving the creative workflow
  • Marketers — quickly find commercially-safe images for campaigns and manage project lightboxes in real-time
  • Journalists & Researchers — search editorial and archival photography to verify historical events through natural conversation
  • Designers — discover visually similar assets and audit video metadata directly from the chat interface
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10 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

search_images

Returns asset IDs, titles, captions, preview URLs. Pass phrase and page. Search Getty Images stock photos

search_creative

Search Getty creative (commercial-use) images only

search_editorial

Not for commercial use. Search Getty editorial images

get_image

Get full details of a Getty image

get_images_batch

Get details for multiple Getty images at once

search_videos

Search Getty stock videos

get_video

Get full details of a Getty video

download_image

Returns download URL and consumes corporate quota limits. Pass asset ID. Download a Getty image

get_similar

Find visually similar Getty images

list_collections

List your Getty lightbox collections

See how to talk to your AI agent using Getty Images.

Search for creative images of 'modern sustainable architecture'

Searching creative library... I found several high-quality images of sustainable buildings with solar panels and vertical gardens. Would you like to see the preview URLs and asset IDs for these?

Find visually similar images to asset '12345678'

Analyzing visual properties... I found 5 similar assets with matching aesthetic patterns and compositions. I can provide the titles and artist names for these related images.

List my Getty lightboxes

Retrieving collections... You have 3 active lightboxes: 'Q2 Web Campaign', 'Social Media Assets', and 'Inspiration Board'. Which one would you like to explore for selected assets?

Yes. Use the 'search_creative' tool. It pre-filters results for commercial, advertising, and marketing use, ensuring the assets you discover are commercially safe natively.

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