Unsplash MCP Server

Item: Unsplash MCP Server
Rating: 74
Author: M8ven

Provides access to the Unsplash API, enabling AI assistants to search and retrieve high-quality photos, browse collections, view photographer profiles, and get photo statistics with advanced filtering options.

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// key findings

✅

10 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

9 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: UNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configPORT— TRANSPORT=http =3000 npm start

configTRANSPORT— http PORT=3000 npm start

🔐 secretUNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY— export =your_access_key_here

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commit: 108f387a3a7f5b327ba39ce21911b5d57d8980d9

code hash: d5c1c4c7b7029dab9c7189313a73d194bca9e58b46bac838d49179c7f9150c74

verified: 6/18/2026, 11:53:03 AM

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