Getty Images MCP Server

What it does

Getty Images' hosted MCP server, launched 12 Aug 2026, exposes the creative, editorial, news, sport, and archival library to agents: search stills and video, read asset metadata, and download files under your organization's existing licence. For a film team it is the licensed-archive counterpart to generative video — the route an agent takes when a cut needs real news footage, sports plates, or historical material that no model can lawfully fabricate. Tools are meant to be discovered at runtime rather than hard-coded.

Connect

https://mcp.gettyimages.com/v1

claude mcp add --transport http getty-images https://mcp.gettyimages.com/v1

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "getty-images": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.gettyimages.com/v1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "getty-images": {
      "url": "https://mcp.gettyimages.com/v1"
    }
  }
}

Field notes

Enterprise-gated, not self-serve: access needs an active Getty agreement (Premium Access or Editorial Subscription) or a reseller partnership, acceptance of the Web Service Terms, and an API key plus secret issued by an account rep — there is no signup link, only contact-sales. Re-checked 17 Sep 2026 and nothing has moved in five weeks: same endpoint, same 20-queries-per-second throttle, same OAuth 2.0 client-credentials or authorization-code handshake, and still no published header form, client config snippet, or tool names. So claude_code stays null until the connect recipe is public; point your agent at the server and let it read the auth and tool descriptions there. Getty asks explicitly that you not hard-code tool names or parameters, because they are still changing. The sharp edge is licensing, not plumbing: search spans the whole library while downloads are bounded by your subscription, so an agent can surface an asset it has no right to deliver — check the licence before you cut it in. Nothing here generates; for a self-serve licensed-footage route see stockfilm, and for stills-with-an-open-API see magnific.

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