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Shots for Bots MCP Server

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Shots for Bots runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 84 installs a week from npm.

Search 3,790 photographs free; buy full-resolution originals with USDC over HTTP 402 (x402).

Installs per day peak 457 · avg 21 · -83% w/w
a month agotoday
84
Installs / week
npm · shotsforbots-mcp
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Last commit
3 releases in 90 days
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License
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Nothing serious here today

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

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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 shotsforbots-mcp -- npx -y shotsforbots-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shotsforbots-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "shotsforbots-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.shotsforbots-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "shotsforbots-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shotsforbots-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "shotsforbots-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "shotsforbots-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "shotsforbots-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: SHOTSFORBOTS_PRIVATE_KEY (0x-prefixed 64-hex private key of a hot wallet funded with a few dollars of USDC on Base. Required only by buy_photo; search_photos, get_photo and catalog_info work without it), SHOTSFORBOTS_MAX_PRICE_USD (Per-purchase spend cap in USD. Default 0.50), SHOTSFORBOTS_DAILY_CAP_USD (Per-day spend cap in USD. Default 5.00), SHOTSFORBOTS_OUT_DIR (Directory bought files are written to. Default ~/Downloads/shotsforbots/).

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Shots for Bots — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Shots for Bots?
Shots for Bots 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 npm package shotsforbots-mcp was installed 84 times last week.
How do I connect Shots for Bots?
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 shotsforbots-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Shots for Bots?
The npm package shotsforbots-mcp was installed 84 times in the last week. Week over week that is -83%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.