# Dribbble Discovery AI Agent Connect

> Dribbble design discovery as an MCP: popular and recent shots, full shot details, designer portfolios, user profiles and design studio teams — official API v2 read-only (OAuth Bearer, 60 req/min).

## Overview
- **Category:** data-analytics
- **Price:** Free
- **Endpoint:** https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_BsARdA9dB0FqnMpsUlVepuoPPTFPo2Gk6425XzCv/ai-agent-connect
- **Tags:** dribbble, design-inspiration, shots, designers, portfolio, ui-ux

## Description

**Dribbble** — the showcase community for designers — read-only discovery angle as a single MCP server (the companion dribbble-mcp covers authenticated CRUD for the token owner).

### What you can do
- **Popular shots** — the community's trending design work: UI, illustration, branding, motion
- **Recent shots** — the newest published work for daily inspiration feeds
- **Shot details** — all image sizes, tags, like counts and the designer
- **Designer portfolios** — every published shot of a specific designer
- **Users & teams** — designer profiles and design studio team pages

### Authentication (from the official API v2 docs)
1. Register an app at dribbble.com (account → applications) to get an OAuth2 token with read scope
2. **All v2 calls require the Bearer token** — even public shot listing; anonymous requests return 404 HTML
3. Rate limit: 60 requests/minute (X-Ratelimit headers on every response)

### Who is this for?
Design researchers, moodboard builders, creative agencies, product teams sourcing design references and AI agents that bring design trends into conversations.

## Tools

### get_shot
Use shot ids from list tools.

Get full details of one shot: images, tags, likes, views, designer

### list_popular_shots
Pagination via page/per_page (max 50). Great for moodboards, design research and trend spotting.

List popular shots (trending design work) from the Dribbble community

### list_recent_shots
Same payload as popular shots: images, tags, likes, designer. Use for daily inspiration feeds.

List the most recent shots published by the Dribbble community

### get_user
Get a Dribbble user profile: bio, location, followers, pro status

### get_user_shots
Use user numeric id (from get_user) or username. Great for studying a designer's full style.

List all published shots of a specific Dribbble designer

### get_team
Useful to explore studio work and hiring signals.

Get a Dribbble team profile (design studios and agencies)

## Prompt Examples

**Prompt:** 
```
Show me this week's most popular dashboard designs
```

**Response:** 
```
🎨 **Popular dashboard shots (Dribbble)**

Trending this week:
- SaaS analytics dashboard — dark mode, 2.1k likes
- Fintech portfolio tracker — 1.8k likes
- CRM data table redesign — 1.4k likes

All include hidpi images and tags (dashboard, saas, data-viz). Want me to filter by tag or pull a specific designer's full portfolio?
```

**Prompt:** 
```
Show me all shots from the designer behind that iOS app redesign
```

**Response:** 
```
🎨 **Designer portfolio (full shot list)**

42 published shots: iOS fintech app (the redesign you saw), travel app concept, icon sets, motion studies...

Consistent visual signature: bold typography, dark gradients. Want the designer's profile stats (followers, pro status)?
```

## Frequently Asked Questions

**How do I get the access token?**
Register an application on dribbble.com (your account → applications), then use the OAuth2 authorize flow (https://dribbble.com/oauth/authorize) with your client id/secret to mint a read-scope token. All v2 API calls — even public shot listing — require the Bearer token.

**What is the rate limit?**
60 requests per minute, tracked in the X-Ratelimit-Limit / X-Ratelimit-Remaining / X-Ratelimit-Reset headers of every response.