| name | pexels |
| description | Pexels is a stock media platform that provides free access to curated photos and videos, with an API that enables developers to search, retrieve, and integrate royalty-free visual content into websites, apps, and creative workflows. Read and write Pexels data through One: collections, videos, photos, curatedphotos and more, 9 actions with real parameter documentation. Use whenever the user asks to look something up in Pexels, create or update a record there, or build code against the Pexels API. |
Pexels through One
Pexels is a stock media platform that provides free access to curated photos and videos, with an API that enables developers to search, retrieve, and integrate royalty-free visual content into websites, apps, and creative workflows.
One exposes Pexels through four MCP tools. The table below carries real action ids from One's knowledge base, so for a common operation you can skip search and go straight to reading the action's parameters.
How to run an action
- Find the action in the table below, or call
search_one_platform_actions with platform pexels if it is not listed.
- Call
get_one_action_knowledge with the action id. Do this every time, including for actions in this table. The table gives you the id, not the parameters.
- Call
execute_one_action with parameters copied from that knowledge.
Never guess a parameter name, a body field, or an enum value. The knowledge has the real schema, and a guessed field is either a 400 or a silent write of the wrong thing.
Before you start
Call list_one_integrations once and confirm Pexels is connected. If it is missing, the user has not connected it: say so and point them at https://app.withone.ai rather than reaching for raw HTTP.
Each connection carries an access field. If it reports {"policy": "methods", "methods": ["GET"]} the agent is read-only here, so plan a read-only answer instead of attempting a write that will be refused.
Before a write
Creates, updates, deletes and sends land on a real Pexels account and cannot be recalled. State the action and the specific target in one line before the first write in a task, and let the user stop you. Reads need no confirmation.
Actions
Collections
| Action | Method | Path | Action id |
|---|
| Get a Collection's Media | GET | /collections/{{id}} | conn_mod_def::GKPBuCHU4vA::m9mqExI1RC2ncXfozDFpog |
| List Featured Collections | GET | /v1/collections/featured | conn_mod_def::GKPBuBBGn-Y::3lscNXuYQAKan_Qnd_PAaw |
| List My Collections | GET | /collections | conn_mod_def::GKPBuAtVtX4::eT4eyEtrQSqv1dfgv8QdeQ |
Videos
| Action | Method | Path | Action id |
|---|
| Get a Video | GET | /videos/videos/{{id}} | conn_mod_def::GKPBuKbSAyc::W0VPYn70QsuPwY3--P1vRQ |
| List Popular Videos | GET | /v1/videos/popular | conn_mod_def::GKPBuMtKew4::pAY4uu7HR1eYzc_tyW-exQ |
| Search Videos | GET | /v1/videos/search | conn_mod_def::GKPBuMWoxKk::fAcwN2rDQ8-Imxns1UFzNA |
Photos
| Action | Method | Path | Action id |
|---|
| Get a Photo | GET | /photos/{{id}} | conn_mod_def::GKPBt_4oMYI::zyH0hf3uSmygKILirV1bXw |
| Search Photos | GET | /v1/search | conn_mod_def::GKPBuM0VEq0::J6U7UN72TDCEg5VXcVctqg |
CuratedPhotos
| Action | Method | Path | Action id |
|---|
| List Curated Photos | GET | /v1/curated | conn_mod_def::GKPBuBzR38E::P94Y1CAYQsGwxX4QX8ViVg |
When a call fails
The error comes from Pexels, not from One. A 400 or 422 means your parameters do not match the schema, so re-read the knowledge and fix the field. A 401 or 403 means the connection needs re-authorizing, which no retry will fix. A 404 means the id is not on this account. A 429 means slow down. Never retry a write more than once: the first attempt may have landed.
Full catalog: https://www.withone.ai/knowledge/pexels
Integration knowledge by One (withone.ai), licensed under One-Knowledge-1.0. Attribution must be preserved in derivative works.