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You can automatically find hero images for blog posts by using the Pexels API to derive visual content from article metadata. The Skill generates 3-5 landscape image queries based on your title, tags, excerpt, and optional brand context.

Brand context aligns fetched visuals with your specific industry and tone. By leveraging company-context information alongside article metadata, the image search generates queries that match your brand's established visual identity.

Yes, you need a PEXELS_API_KEY to search for landscape images through this workflow. The Skill uses this key to authenticate requests to the Pexels API, fetch candidate image metadata, and download hero images directly to your article directory.

The best way to get blog post visuals from article metadata is to parse the title, tags, and excerpt to generate targeted search queries. This approach fetches multiple landscape images suitable for drafts and social previews without manual image hunting.

Yes, you can download hero images directly to your article directory. After querying the Pexels API with generated search terms, the Skill outputs candidate image metadata and saves the downloaded landscape visuals alongside your article path.

A limitation of using Pexels for brand-aligned visuals is that results depend entirely on available stock photography. While brand context refines the search queries, the final landscape images are constrained by the Pexels library's existing content.