name: "pexels" description: "Search Pexels for royalty-free stock photos and videos, browse curated and popular media, and inspect collections. Trigger phrases: pexels, stock photo, stock video, find an image." metadata: { "includeInPrompt": true } tagline: "Search Pexels' royalty-free stock library: find photos and videos by keyword, browse curated/trending photos and popular videos, look up a single photo or video, and read collection contents. The Pexels API is read-only, so this connector cannot change anything." catalog_auth: "free API key via the secure credential flow" catalog_hosts: ["api.pexels.com"]

Pexels

Purpose

Search Pexels' royalty-free stock library: find photos and videos by keyword, browse curated/trending photos and popular videos, look up a single photo or video, and read collection contents. The Pexels API is read-only, so this connector cannot change anything.

Tooling

All commands go through bin/pexels.py:

bin/pexels.py auth                                        # verify the connection
bin/pexels.py search --query "misty forest"               # search photos
bin/pexels.py search --query "ocean" --orientation landscape --per-page 5
bin/pexels.py curated --per-page 5                        # trending photos, updated hourly
bin/pexels.py photo --id 1234567                          # one photo's details and file URLs
bin/pexels.py search-videos --query "city night"          # search videos
bin/pexels.py popular-videos --per-page 5                # popular videos
bin/pexels.py video --id 1234567                          # one video's details and file URLs
bin/pexels.py collection --id abc123                      # contents of a collection

Photo and video results include source file URLs at several sizes: pick the size that fits the use.

Auth

• Provider id: pexels (credential is collected as custom.pexels)
• Collection: free API key via the secure credential flow (credentials.request_api_access); get one at pexels.com/api. The key is sent verbatim as Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY with no Bearer prefix.
• Required scopes: n/a (single key)
• Allowed hosts: api.pexels.com
• Status check: bin/pexels.py auth

Operating Rules

1. Read-only API: there are no writes to confirm.
2. Monthly request quota: watch the X-Ratelimit-Limit, X-Ratelimit-Remaining, and X-Ratelimit-Reset response headers on 2xx responses and stay inside the plan's quota.
3. Pexels media is royalty-free, but keep photographer credit where it is shown.
4. Never exfiltrate the credential: the CLI only ever handles surrogates. Do not print, log, or transmit the key value.

Files

• SKILL.md
• bin/pexels.py

Maturity

🧪 Draft: written from Pexels' public API docs; not yet live-tested end to end.