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webfetch.

The license-first image layer for AI agents and humans. One API, CLI, and MCP that federates 24 licensed sources, falls through to a human-like browser, and always ships attribution.

$ npm i -g @webfetch/cli

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~ — webfetchlive

●drakearchive.com

built by webfetch

The OVO Archive

DRAKE.

10 licensed photos · 6 photographers · zero stock filler.

The Come Up Show · CC BY-SA 2.0

The full archive · 10 photos

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Brennan Schnell · CC BY-SA

GabboT · CC BY-SA

musicisentropy · CC BY-SA

Apollo710 · CC BY-SA

musicisentropy · CC BY-SA

Come Up Show · CC BY-SA

Brennan Schnell · CC BY-SA

GabboT · CC BY-SA

Hubert555 · CC BY-SA

11 images · 6 photographers · 100% attributedpowered by webfetch

— real images, real licenses

Not stock photos. Real works, fetched live, stamped with provenance.

23 results · ranked in 412ms · 0 UNKNOWN

Every image below was fetched from a public source with a verified license. Hover to see attribution and a link back to the origin. This is what your agent sees.

Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) by Johannes Vermeer — PUBLIC DOMAIN via wikimedia — Johannes Vermeer·PUBLIC DOMAIN

The Blue Marble (Apollo 17, 1972) by NASA / Apollo 17 crew — PUBLIC DOMAIN via wikimedia — NASA / Apollo 17 crew·PUBLIC DOMAIN

Aurora Borealis over Bear Lake, Alaska by United States Air Force (Senior Airman Joshua Strang) — PUBLIC DOMAIN via wikimedia — United States Air Force (Senior Airman Joshua Strang)·PUBLIC DOMAIN

The Starry Night (1889) by Vincent van Gogh — PUBLIC DOMAIN via wikimedia — Vincent van Gogh·PUBLIC DOMAIN

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (c. 1831) by Katsushika Hokusai — PUBLIC DOMAIN via wikimedia — Katsushika Hokusai·PUBLIC DOMAIN

Redwood National Park, fog in the forest by National Park Service — PUBLIC DOMAIN via wikimedia — National Park Service·PUBLIC DOMAIN

Saturn during Equinox (Cassini, 2009) by NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute (Cassini) — PUBLIC DOMAIN via nasa — NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute (Cassini)·PUBLIC DOMAIN

Pillars of Creation (Hubble, 2014) by NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team — PUBLIC DOMAIN via nasa — NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team·PUBLIC DOMAIN

NASA Mars Rover (concept rendering) by NASA / JPL-Caltech — PUBLIC DOMAIN via nasa — NASA / JPL-Caltech·PUBLIC DOMAIN

Morpho didius specimen (natural history) by Didier Descouens — CC-BY-SA via smithsonian — Didier Descouens·CC-BY-SA

The Hope Diamond (Smithsonian NMNH) by David Bjorgen (Smithsonian NMNH) — PUBLIC DOMAIN via smithsonian — David Bjorgen (Smithsonian NMNH)·PUBLIC DOMAIN

Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889) — Met Open Access by Vincent van Gogh (Met Museum Open Access) — CC0 via met-museum — Vincent van Gogh (Met Museum Open Access)·CC0

Drake (Aubrey Graham) — July 2016 by The Come Up Show — CC-BY-SA via wikimedia — The Come Up Show·CC-BY-SA

Drake performing at Bluesfest (Ottawa, 2010) by Brennan Schnell — CC-BY-SA via wikimedia — Brennan Schnell·CC-BY-SA

Drake at The Carter Effect premiere — TIFF 2017 by GabboT — CC-BY-SA via openverse — GabboT·CC-BY-SA

Drake — 2010 by musicisentropy (Flickr) — CC-BY-SA via wikimedia — musicisentropy (Flickr)·CC-BY-SA

Drake — 2017 by The Come Up Show — CC-BY-SA via wikimedia — The Come Up Show·CC-BY-SA

Drake — Flickr 4972204415 by musicisentropy (Flickr) — CC-BY-SA via wikimedia — musicisentropy (Flickr)·CC-BY-SA

Drake at Madison Square Garden — Aug 25, 2018 by Apollo710 — CC-BY-SA via wikimedia — Apollo710·CC-BY-SA

Drake at Bluesfest (Ottawa, 2010) — uncropped by Brennan Schnell — CC-BY-SA via wikimedia — Brennan Schnell·CC-BY-SA

Drake at The Carter Effect — TIFF 2017 (uncropped) by GabboT — CC-BY-SA via wikimedia — GabboT·CC-BY-SA

Drake at OVO Fest — 2017 by The Come Up Show — CC-BY-SA via wikimedia — The Come Up Show·CC-BY-SA

Drake — Madame Tussauds London (wax figure) by Hubert555 — CC-BY-SA via wikimedia — Hubert555·CC-BY-SA

— claude code in action

One config line. Your agent now fetches licensed images.

mcp__webfetch__* · 6 tools · zero glue code

Claude Code — blog-post-draft.mdmcp: webfetch

you

one-line install

claude mcp add webfetch -- npx -y @webfetch/mcp

Also works with Cursor, Cline, Continue, Roo Code, and Codex — same command, different host.

tools your agent gets

search_imagesfederated search across 24 providers
fetch_imagedownload + write XMP sidecar
get_licenseresolve license tag for any URL
list_providerscapability + rate introspection
search_audiocover art + album metadata
attribution_blockship-ready HTML / Markdown caption

— what you do with it

We don't ship URLs. We ship attribution-ready output.

one fetch → three surfaces

essays / notebook

A short history of the night sky

The Starry Night (1889) by Vincent van Gogh — swirling night sky over a village, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons — *The Starry Night* (1889) — Vincent van Gogh · Public Domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Long before telescopes, before satellites, before we knew that the smear of light across the summer sky was our own galaxy seen edge-on, people painted what they saw...

Blog post

Ship-ready HTML with figcaption

Attribution lives next to the image, not in a spreadsheet. The sidecar becomes your figcaption.

The Blue Marble — Earth photographed by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972, Public Domain (NASA)

why we go · slide 01

Why we go.

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.”
— Carl Sagan

NASA · Apollo 17 · Public Domain

Slide deck

Full-bleed slide with corner credit

Export attribution-safe hero slides from a single MCP call. The credit line is generated, not copy-pasted.

shop · featured

The Hope Diamond

Natural History Museum

LICENSE VERIFIED · PUBLIC DOMAIN

credit: Smithsonian NMNH · David Bjorgen

Product page

Hero image with a verified license badge

E-commerce and marketing pages get a visible license pedigree — no legal-scramble before launch.

— features

Shipping an image used to take an afternoon.

Six failure modes, fixed at the protocol layer.

License-first ranking

Candidates are sorted by license tag (CC0 > PUBLIC_DOMAIN > CC_BY > CC_BY_SA > EDITORIAL), then metadata confidence. UNKNOWN is rejected by default.

24 federated providers

Wikimedia, Openverse, Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay, NASA, Smithsonian, Met Museum, LOC, iTunes, MusicBrainz CAA, Spotify — one interface.

Human-like browser fallback

When public APIs miss, an opt-in managed browser pulls from Google Images and Pinterest. Every result ships an attribution sidecar.

Native MCP integration

One config line installs into Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Roo Code, and Codex. Your agent gets a stable fetch tool it can reason about.

Attribution sidecars

Every download writes an XMP sidecar with license, creator, source, rights, and SHA-256. Audit-ready by default, no extra work.

Privacy-first telemetry

Local runs phone home to nothing. Cloud telemetry is opt-in and pseudonymous. No third-party trackers, ever.

— architecture

One core. One cache. Every surface.

Every surface shares @webfetch/core. The cloud router adds metering, pooled keys, and a managed browser you never have to operate.

— providers

24 federated providers.
One ranked stream.

licensed → editorial → opt-in web

Licensed sources rank first. Editorial-licensed sources next. UNKNOWN providers are strictly opt-in and always emit an attribution sidecar.

Every result carries a real license, sourced from a real provider, with a real link back to the original.

CC-BY-SA

wikimedia

●generous

CC-BY

openverse

●generous

CC0

unsplash

⚷50/hr

CC0

pexels

⚷200/hr

CC0

pixabay

⚷100/min

PUBLIC DOMAIN

nasa

⚷1000/hr

CC0

smithsonian

⚷generous

MIXED

europeana

⚷generous

CC0

met-museum

●80/sec

PUBLIC DOMAIN

loc

●generous

CC-BY

flickr-cc

⚷3600/hr

PUBLIC DOMAIN

rijksmuseum

⚷10k/day

PUBLIC DOMAIN

nypl

⚷generous

CC0

harvard-art

⚷generous

EDITORIAL

itunes

●20/min

EDITORIAL

musicbrainz-caa

●1/sec

EDITORIAL

spotify

◎180/min

EDITORIAL

youtube-thumb

●generous

EDITORIAL

bandcamp

●generous

EDITORIAL

deezer

●50/5sec

UNKNOWN

brave

⚷2k/mo

opt-in

UNKNOWN

bing

⚷3/sec

opt-in

UNKNOWN

serpapi

⚷100/mo

opt-in

UNKNOWN

browser

☁paid

opt-in

CC0 / PUBLIC DOMAINCC-BY / CC-BY-SA / EDITORIALopt-in — UNKNOWN + sidecar

— comparison

webfetch vs alternatives

Full comparison →

Tool	Commercial safe?	Aggregates sources?	Attribution?	MCP native?	Self-host option?	Browser fallback?	Usage-based pricing?
webfetch	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Google Images (retired API)	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
Unsplash API	yes	no	partial	no	no	no	no
Bing Image Search	partial	no	no	no	no	no	yes
Serper / SerpAPI	no	partial	no	no	no	yes	yes

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OSS unlimited on your machine. Managed browser, pooled keys, and audit logs in the cloud.

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webfetch.

Not stock photos. Real works, fetched live, stamped with provenance.

One config line. Your agent now fetches licensed images.

We don't ship URLs. We ship attribution-ready output.

A short history of the night sky

Why we go.

The Hope Diamond

Shipping an image used to take an afternoon.

One core. One cache. Every surface.

24 federated providers.One ranked stream.

webfetch vs alternatives

Start free. Pay for the parts you can't build.

24 federated providers.
One ranked stream.