One of the largest film still libraries on the internet — 5,489 films, indexed frame by frame on lighting key and quality, lens character, shot size, camera angle, colour palette in hex, mood and era.
Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour. Then build moodboards, shot boards and exportable lookbooks — or skip the interface entirely and call it from your own software.
Every capability is reachable by machine: a REST API, an MCP server and an npm SDK, so an agent can pull references into a moodboard, a lookbook, a shot board or a production pipeline without a human in the loop.
| framethrower-mcp | MCP server — four tools, OAuth 2.1, nothing to install. Works in Claude, Cursor, VS Code and any MCP client. |
| framethrower-sdk | npm install framethrower-ai — the official JavaScript/TypeScript client. |
npm install framethrower-aiclaude mcp add --transport http framethrower https://framethrower.ai/api/mcpcurl -X POST https://framethrower.ai/api/v1/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ft_YOUR_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"query": "neon-lit rainy street at night", "limit": 5}'Lighting key and quality · lens character · shot size and framing · camera angle · colour palette in hex · mood · era · time of day — alone or combined, in the words you'd brief a cinematographer in. Or drop in a reference image and get frames that match its light, colour and composition.
Every result links back to its film, director and cinematographer.
$2 of credits free on signup, no card. Then $1 = 1,000 credits and a search costs 2 — so $1 buys 500 searches. Credits never expire, and there are no rate limits.
Out of credits returns HTTP 402 with the cost, your balance and a top-up link, so an agent can explain itself instead of failing silently.
Metadata, thumbnail URLs, extracted colour palettes and deep links. Never raw image bytes.
FrameThrower is a discovery and reference tool, not an image-delivery pipe. Frames are shown at reduced resolution as references for commentary, education and study; the frames are not ours to license and rights remain with their owners. Intended use →
The measurements we compute from them — colour palettes, counts, rankings — are ours, and those are published under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.
FrameThrower is built by senior filmmakers and ads creatives — people who have shot, cut and pitched for a living — for working film professionals. That is why the index is organised around lighting, lens and framing rather than keywords: it is the vocabulary the work is actually briefed in.
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