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 9 days of history · worst day 96%

9 days agonow

96.7%

Uptime 24h

88 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

174 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 14 Sep 2026

JENRIKS Photo Archive does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "photo-archive": {
      "url": "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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "photo-archive": {
      "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	176 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 88 of 91 checks got a reply (96.7%), average response time 174 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 with the file path 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 174 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?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence 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.