JENRIKS Photo Archive MCP Server

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JENRIKS Photo Archive is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 14 Sep 2026.

Read-only MCP server over the JENRIKS daily photoblog: one photo per day since 2006. No auth.

Uptime history 58 days of history · worst day 96%

58 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

154 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 14 Sep 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check JENRIKS Photo Archive every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add photo-archive --transport http https://jenriks.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://jenriks.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.photo-archive]
url = "https://jenriks.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "photo-archive": {
      "url": "https://jenriks.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "photo-archive": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://jenriks.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

latest

get_latest_photo

Return today's JENRIKS photo (the newest post), or the newest post by one photographer when photographer is set. A new photo appears every day at 00:00 Europe/Berlin.

photo

get_photo

Return one JENRIKS post by publication date (YYYY-MM-DD) or by page URL / path (/YYYY/MM/DD/slug/).

photos

search_photos

Search the JENRIKS archive (one photo per day since 2006). Free-text query matches title, place, categories, tags and photographer; filters narrow by photographer, category, year and location. Returns permanent page URLs, credits, coordinates and image URLs, newest first. Page with offset, or with the opaque cursor from next_cursor (cursor wins when both are sent).

random

random_photo

Return a random JENRIKS photo, optionally limited to a photographer, category or year.

site

get_site_overview

Totals, photographers, categories with counts, posts per year, section URLs, URL pattern and license terms. Pass include to keep only some of those blocks next to the totals and dates.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://jenriks.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	155 ms	13 min ago

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JENRIKS Photo Archive — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can JENRIKS Photo Archive do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_latest_photo, get_photo, get_site_overview, random_photo, search_photos. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is JENRIKS Photo Archive working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 154 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect JENRIKS Photo Archive?

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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does JENRIKS Photo Archive need an API key?

No. JENRIKS Photo Archive completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is JENRIKS Photo Archive?

It answers our handshake in 154 ms on average, which is faster than 82% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is JENRIKS Photo Archive open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at jenriks.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.