Find Free Stock Photos and Videos Through Pixabay and Your Muse

Through an AnythingMCP custom connector, your muse can search Pixabay for you: more than four million royalty-free photos, illustrations, vectors, and video clips, found by asking in plain words instead of scrolling pages yourself.

What it does

The connector adds two tools, both read-only. One searches images: photos, illustrations, and vectors. You can narrow by keyword, category, colors, orientation, minimum size, and language, ask for Editor's Choice picks, keep SafeSearch on, or pull up one image by its ID. Each result comes with a preview, a web-size version, and a large version up to 1280 pixels, and tags. The other searches video clips by keyword, type, category, and minimum size, and returns video files in four sizes. It gathers pictures for a post, page, presentation, or listing, and short clips for a video.

How to use it

1. Create a free Pixabay account if you do not have one.
2. While signed in, open the Pixabay API page and find your key in the box under Search Images.
3. Start an AnythingMCP account, add the Pixabay connector, and enter the key only where the connector asks.
4. In Muse, open Settings, then Connectors, and add a custom connector with the address AnythingMCP gives you. Sign in and approve.
5. Test it with a search, such as nature photos.
6. Then ask as you would ask a person: what the picture is for, the colors or mood, and tall or wide.

What you need

• A Muse account that can add custom connectors
• An AnythingMCP account with the Pixabay connector added
• A free Pixabay account and its API key

What to watch for

• Pixabay content is free for commercial and non-commercial use under its Content License, no credit line required. Free does not mean anything goes: check the license terms if a photo shows a person, a brand logo, or private property and you plan to sell with it.
• A search returns at most 500 results, in pages up to 200. If the first page misses, change the words, category, or colors instead of paging through hundreds of near-misses.
• Each key allows 100 requests a minute, 5,000 an hour. If searches fail with a rate error, wait and ask again.
• The connector only searches. It does not save, edit, or publish anything. The large image tops out at 1280 pixels wide, better for screens than a big poster. This is a custom connector, and Meta does not review custom connectors. You can disconnect it in Settings at any time. The muse prepares, you decide.