Pexels Media

Pulls royalty-free images and videos from Pexels with proper search filters for orientation, size, color, and duration. The standout feature is mandatory sidecar metadata files for every download, capturing photographer credits, licenses, attribution HTML, and the full API response. Good for grabbing design assets or content placeholders when you need the provenance tracked automatically. Supports curated collections, popular feeds, and all the usual Pexels quality tiers from tiny thumbnails to original resolution. Rate limited to 200 requests per hour on the free tier, which is plenty for most project needs.

skills.sh installs: 303
GitHub stars: 12
last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add troykelly/claude-skills --skill pexels-media --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Pexels Media Sourcing

Source high-quality, royalty-free images and videos from Pexels for design work, placeholders, or content creation.

Prerequisites

This skill requires the PEXELS_API_KEY environment variable to be set.

# Check if API key is available
echo $PEXELS_API_KEY

If not set, obtain a free API key from Pexels API.

API Base URLs

Photos: https://api.pexels.com/v1/
Videos: https://api.pexels.com/videos/

Authentication

All requests require the Authorization header:

curl -H "Authorization: $PEXELS_API_KEY" "https://api.pexels.com/v1/search?query=nature"

Photo Endpoints

Search Photos

curl -H "Authorization: $PEXELS_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.pexels.com/v1/search?query=QUERY&orientation=ORIENTATION&size=SIZE&color=COLOR&locale=LOCALE&page=PAGE&per_page=PER_PAGE"

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