Agent skill · mvanhorn
pp-pixabay
Every Pixabay search filter the API has — plus a 24-hour local cache, offline search, resumable downloads with built-in attribution, live rate-limit awareness, and agent-native JSON no other Pixabay tool ships. Trigger phrases: `find a royalty-free photo of`, `search pixabay for`, `get stock video of`, `download free images of`, `find an illustration of`, `use pixabay`, `run pixabay`.
What it needs
About 10k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Pixabay — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the pixabay-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: pixabay-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.4 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. The only maintained Pixabay CLI is ten years dead and images-only; the only agent-native tool emits text you have to scrape. This one unifies image and video search, caches results in a local SQLite store for up to 24 hours (per Pixabay's API Terms) so you can search offline with search, credits Pixabay with a visible link on every result, and adds commands the raw API can't do: media search merges photos and video, pull does resumable downloads with attribution and 24h URL re-resolution, and quota surfaces the rate-limit headers nobody else exposes so you can pace within limits. When to Use This CLI Use this CLI when an agent or developer needs royalty-free photos, illustrations, vectors, or videos by search query and wants the results as structured JSON, persisted locally for offline reuse, or downloaded in bulk. It is the right choice for content pipelines, media-picker backends, and any workflow that re-uses the same searches and benefits from a local cache, attribution tracking, and respecting the API's rate and result limits. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pixabay