Phototology MCP Server

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.

claude mcp add mcp -e 'PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY=<PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY>' -- npx -y @phototology/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@phototology/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY": "<PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@phototology/mcp"]
env = { PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY = "<PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY>" }

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@phototology/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY": "<PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@phototology/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY": "<PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own value in place of <PHOTOTOLOGY_API_KEY> (Your Phototology API key (pt_live_... for production, pt_test_... for the free fixture sandbox). Get one at https://phototology.com/dashboard. New accounts include 1,000 free credits on email verification). The author’s registry entry marks it as required.

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: PHOTOTOLOGY_BASE_URL (Override the API base URL. Defaults to https://api.phototology.com. Used for local development against phototology-api), PHOTOTOLOGY_MCP_NO_TELEMETRY (Set to 1 to disable anonymous telemetry: the editor name and version, the package version, and per tool call the tool name, success, duration, error code and counts. Never image content, file paths, tool inputs or outputs, or conversation text), DO_NOT_TRACK (Set to 1 to disable telemetry. Same effect as PHOTOTOLOGY_MCP_NO_TELEMETRY; follows the cross-tool convention many CLIs honor), PHOTOTOLOGY_MCP_ALLOWED_DIRS (Folders the server may read photos from and write enriched copies to, separated by : (; on Windows). Unset means any local path. Paths are checked after symlinks are resolved).