Free Image Library — Free CC Images & Audio MCP 🖼️

License: MIT

Free images for any project: millions of openly-licensed, royalty-free Creative Commons images and audio (Flickr, Wikimedia, museums) — every result with ready-to-paste attribution. Zero API keys, zero configuration.

The visual sibling of the Free Music Libraryfor the same content-creator audience: the agent finds the image AND the creditline in one call, so the attribution never gets lost between copy and paste.

Why this exists

Models suggest random stock images (license unknown, credit never written).This returns license-safe images with the credit the user MUST paste — builtinto the same result.
License intelligence, not just labels: every row carries a credit_notestating the actual obligation — CC BY-NC rows are loudly flaggednon-commercial-only before your client ships them into a paid campaign.
Serendipity: image_roulette picks from deep in the result set, not thefirst hit everyone has seen.
Built on Openverse — keyless (anonymous limits:20 requests/min, 200/day, verified; a free registered key raises them viaOPENVERSE_API_KEY). A 5-minute TTL cache makes repeat searches free.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`find_images`	Free CC image search with filters (license, aspect_ratio, size, extension) + attribution on every row
`image_roulette`	One random license-safe pick, honest about how it was chosen
`find_audio`	Free CC music / sound effects / field recordings from Openverse's audio index
`skills_list` / `skill_read`	Updatable playbooks: CC license briefs in plain language, error recovery

Plus prompts: hero-image, license-safe-images.

Quickstart

# 1-Line Universal Installer (auto-configures Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, ...)
curl -fsSL "https://free-image-library.builditwithai.xyz/install" | bash

# Or run directly via your preferred runtime:
uvx free-image-library
npx -y free-image-library

Example

User:  I need a hero image for my climate blog post

find_images(query="melting glacier", aspect_ratio="wide", count=3,
            intent="hero image for a climate blog post")
→ images: [{
     title: "Glacier calving", creator: "…", license: "CC BY 2.0",
     image_url: "https://…", width: 2048, height: 1152,
     attribution: "\"Glacier calving\" image by … (flickr), licensed CC BY 2.0 (…)",
     credit_note: "Credit REQUIRED — paste the attribution verbatim." }]

Telemetry & privacy

Anonymous usage telemetry (no PII, no queries, no paths) via the fleetstandard (schema v2, dual-endpoint fallback). Opt out any time:FREE_IMAGE_LIBRARY_TELEMETRY=false or DO_NOT_TRACK=1.

Development

uv venv && uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
DO_NOT_TRACK=1 .venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/ -q   # unit + live + e2e

Live tests hit the real Openverse API; they skip themselves when offline orrate-limited.

License

MIT

Free Image Library — Free CC Images & Audio MCP 🖼️