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Quickstart

From zero to your first meme in about five minutes.

1. Get an Imgflip account

Sign up for free at imgflip.com/signup. The Imgflip API authenticates with your username and password (it has no API keys), so consider creating a dedicated account for API use.

Tip

A free account is all you need. Ignore anything that says "Premium" for now — see Premium Tools if you get curious later.

2. Connect the server to your client

The server runs over stdio and is started by your MCP client via npx — nothing to install or keep running yourself.

Add to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "imgflip": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "imgflip-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "IMGFLIP_USERNAME": "your-username",
        "IMGFLIP_PASSWORD": "your-password"
      }
    }
  }
}

Then fully restart Claude Desktop. Prefer one-click? See the .mcpb extension install.

claude mcp add imgflip \
  --env IMGFLIP_USERNAME=your-username \
  --env IMGFLIP_PASSWORD=your-password \
  -- npx -y imgflip-mcp

code --add-mcp '{"name":"imgflip","command":"npx","args":["-y","imgflip-mcp"],"env":{"IMGFLIP_USERNAME":"${input:imgflip_username}","IMGFLIP_PASSWORD":"${input:imgflip_password}"},"inputs":[{"id":"imgflip_username","type":"promptString","description":"Imgflip username"},{"id":"imgflip_password","type":"promptString","description":"Imgflip password","password":true}]}'

3. Make a meme

Open a chat and try:

"Show me the most popular meme templates right now."

"Make a Drake meme: top 'manually formatting code', bottom 'letting the linter do it'."

Your assistant will call get_memes, pick the template, call caption_image, and show you the result — as an inline image plus a link like https://i.imgflip.com/…jpg.

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