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Shutterstock MCP Server

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Shutterstock runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 630 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 6 Nov 2026.

Search Shutterstock photos, footage, music and news images; preview, collect and license them.

Installs per day peak 501 · avg 21
a month agotoday
630
Installs / week
pypi · shutterstock-mcp
0
Stars
0 open issues
6 Nov 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 1 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

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Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add shutterstock-mcp -- uvx shutterstock-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shutterstock-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "shutterstock-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.shutterstock-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["shutterstock-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shutterstock-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "shutterstock-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "shutterstock-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "shutterstock-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: SHUTTERSTOCK_API_KEY (Your Shutterstock app's consumer key, for searching), SHUTTERSTOCK_API_SECRET (Your Shutterstock app's consumer secret), SHUTTERSTOCK_API_TOKEN (Or an OAuth access token, for collections, license history and licensing), SHUTTERSTOCK_ENABLE_LICENSING (Set to true to add the license_asset tool, which spends your subscription).

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Shutterstock — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Shutterstock?
Shutterstock runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package shutterstock-mcp was installed 630 times last week.
How do I connect Shutterstock?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls shutterstock-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Shutterstock?
The pypi package shutterstock-mcp was installed 630 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Shutterstock open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.