# Pexels API AI connector guide

Connect Pexels API data to AI agents with Combined. Explore photos search, photos curated, collection featured, source setup, MCP access and read-only business queries.

Combined offers 1,125 connectors across catalog sources and connectors generated through desktop automation.

## Connect

1. Open Combined Connected Apps and select Pexels API.
2. Authorize the source and choose the relevant datasets.
3. Complete a first sync, then grant your agent access through the Set up or Access workspace.
4. Discover the actual source schemas before querying.

## Setup reference

- API Key from the pexels website: required in the upstream source schema
- Specific color for the search: optional
- Specific locale for the search: optional
- Specific orientation for the search: optional
- Specific query for the search: required in the upstream source schema
- Specific size for the search: optional

## Dataset reference

- photos_search
- photos_curated
- collection_featured
- videos_search
- videos_popular

This is the upstream connector reference, version 0.2.41. Account permissions and sync configuration determine the datasets available in your workspace.

## Agent prompt

Use Combined to analyze my Pexels API data.
List my granted sources, discover the datasets and describe their fields.
Look for datasets corresponding to photos_search, photos_curated, collection_featured, videos_search, videos_popular.
Check the last successful sync and report the available date coverage.
Propose three useful questions based on the fields actually available.
For the question I choose, run read-only SQL over the complete matching dataset.
Use a bounded result; include source names, time window and query receipt.
Ask for a missing join key or metric definition instead of inventing one.

## Links

- Combined: https://www.trycombined.com/
- Setup: https://www.trycombined.com/docs/getting-started/onboarding
- MCP: https://www.trycombined.com/docs/integrations/mcp
- Pricing: https://www.trycombined.com/pricing
- Upstream source reference: https://docs.airbyte.com/integrations/sources/pexels-api
- Full guide: https://www.trycombined.com/connectors/pexels-api