How to connect Pexels MCP with Cursor

How to integrate Pexels MCP with Cursor Cursor is one of the leading AI-powered code editors. It is built to help developers write, understand, and refactor code faster with AI assistance built directly into the editor. And in this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Pexels account to Cursor via Composio Connect, so it can find free stock photos of beaches, get trending Pexels videos this week, list featured photography collections, and more without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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How to integrate Pexels MCP with Cursor

Cursor is one of the leading AI-powered code editors. It is built to help developers write, understand, and refactor code faster with AI assistance built directly into the editor.

And in this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Pexels account to Cursor via Composio Connect, so it can find free stock photos of beaches, get trending Pexels videos this week, list featured photography collections, and more without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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Why Composio?

  • 1,000+ SaaS toolkits out of the box. Skip the work of building and maintaining integrations, Composio gives you instant access to a vast catalog of pre-built connectors.
  • One MCP server for every app. Connect any of your applications on demand through a single endpoint, rather than juggling a separate server for each app.
  • Smart, context-aware tool loading. Unlike traditional MCP servers that dump every available tool into the LLM context window, Composio searches for and loads only the tools relevant to the task at hand. A remote CLI workbench lets LLMs compose these tools into workflows for complex automation.

Connect Pexels to Cursor

Two ways to install — pick whichever you prefer.

1. Install with one click

Click the button below to add Composio to Cursor.

↗Install in Cursor

2. Or add manually

Add to your Cursor mcp.json

Open .cursor/mcp.json in your project root (or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for global config) and add the following configuration:

bash
{
  "servers": {
    "composio": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

3. Authorize

Restart Cursor, then click "Connect" next to Composio in MCP Tools settings.

Cursor MCP Tools settings with Connect button next to Composio

A browser window will open to authorize.

Composio authorization browser window

Connect your Pexels account

Back in Cursor, ask the agent to connect to Pexels or give it any Pexels-related task.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Find free stock photos of beaches"
  • "Get trending Pexels videos this week"
  • "List featured photography collections"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access to Pexels.

That is it. Composio tools are now available in Cursor, and your Pexels account is ready to use.

Conclusion

You have successfully connected Pexels to Cursor using Composio Connect. Your agent can now use Pexels securely without exposing credentials in prompts or local scripts.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Pexels action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get Collection Media

Tool to get all media within a collection by its ID.

Get Curated Photos

Tool to get real-time curated photos.

Featured Collections

Tool to get featured collections.

Get Photo

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific photo.

Get Video by ID

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific video from Pexels.

Get My Collections

Tool to get all of the user's collections on Pexels.

Get Popular Videos

Tool to retrieve current popular Pexels videos.

Search Photos

Tool to search for photos on Pexels.

Search Videos

Tool to search for videos on Pexels by query and optional filters.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Pexels MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Pexels tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Pexels and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Cursor fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Pexels tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Pexels scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Pexels data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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