Commonkite: Free Image Search API, Creative Commons & CC0

Commonkite: free-to-use CC/public-domain images with license + credit line.

Should I use this

Quality & Safety

A
Description quality
100%
Schema completeness
90%
Naming quality
100%
Poisoning risk
100%
Permission match
100%
Protocol compliance
100%

Based on automated analysis of tool definitions and protocol compliance.

Context Cost

~264Tokens (tool definitions)
~1.9 KBTypical response size
Minimal attention impact (0.21% of 128k context)

This is the approximate number of tokens consumed each time the server's tools are loaded into a model's context. Higher counts reduce the attention available for other tasks.

Install

One-Click Install

Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "creative-commons-images": {
      "url": "https://commonkite.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Remote endpoints

https://commonkite.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcpstreamable-http

What it can do

Tool inventory

Tools (1)

🟢 Read-only🟡 Write🔴 Delete⚪ Unknown
🟢search_images(query, license, orientation, max_results)

Search openly licensed images by keyword across Openverse, NASA, The Met, Art Institute of Chicago and Cleveland Museum of Art. Each result has the image and thumbnail URL, size, license name and URL, yes/no flags for commercial use, editing and required credit, and a ready attributionText/attributionHtml. Use when you need an image you are allowed to reuse. Up to 12 results.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 100,
      "description": "What the image should show, e.g. \"lighthouse at night\""
    },
    "license": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "commercial",
        "commercial-modify",
        "no-attribution",
        "any"
      ],
      "default": "commercial",
      "description": "commercial = commercial use allowed (default); commercial-modify = commercial use and editing; no-attribution = CC0/public domain only; any = include non-commercial licenses"
    },
    "orientation": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "any",
        "landscape",
        "portrait",
        "square"
      ],
      "default": "any"
    },
    "max_results": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 12,
      "default": 6
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ]
}

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Evidence

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