Pic Nicked

Search. See. Save. – An MCP that nicks Google photos (pics) into your chat.

Usage & Requirements

Requirements

• Node.js v20+
• Google Cloud Platform account (free tier sufficient)
• Devin

Setup Guide

Follow these steps to set up this MCP:

Create Google Custom search engine

1. Go to Google Programmable Search Engine
2. "Add" to create a new search engine
3. In "Sites to search", enter *.reddit.com/ for example, to include reddit.com in your possible search results (note: you can only add up to 50 TLDs)
4. Name your search engine (e.g., "PicNick")
5. Enable "Image search" option
6. Click "Create"
7. Copy the Search engine ID - save this

Get Google API Key

1. Go to Google Cloud Console API Credentials
2. Select a project
3. Click "+ CREATE CREDENTIALS" then "API key"
4. Copy the generated API key

Configure MCP

Add the following configuration to your MCP settings:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "googleImagesSearch": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@micfogas/mcp-picnick"],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "google-api-key",
        "SEARCH_ENGINE_ID": "search-engine-id"
      },
      "autoApprove": ["persist_image", "search_image"]
    }
  }
}

Replace google-api-key and search-engine-id appropriately.

Example

Ask your assistant to search for images

Find 5 images of your mom

Request additional results

Find 5 more images

Save a specific result to your project

Save the 3rd image to the "yourmom" folder

The MCP will display the results as images in your chat history, and you can save them to your project.

Quick start:

1. Copy .envrc.example to .envrc and add your Google API credentials
2. Run pnpm install && pnpm dev
3. Update your MCP configuration for development:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "googleImagesSearch": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/abs/path/to/project/src/index.js", "--debug", "--pretty-print"],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "google-api-key",
        "SEARCH_ENGINE_ID": "search-engine-id"
      },
      "autoApprove": ["search_image", "persist_image"]
    }
  }
}

Tools

🔍 search_image - Find images

• query (req) - exampple, your mom
• count (1-10, Def. 2) - How many
• safe ('off'/'medium'/'high') - safefilter
• startIndex - because

💾 persist_image - Download and save images to your project

• url (req) - image to dl
• targetPath (req) - Where to save it