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), 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. The endpoint above is published, but the auth handshake is OAuth 2.0 client-credentials or authorization-code to mint a token, and Getty documents neither the header form nor a client config snippet, 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. No tool names are published either, by design. Throttled at 20 queries per second. 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 royalty-free stills with an open API see freepik in this directory.

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