biocartoon
Search and download the BioCartoon catalog of over 13,000 open-licensed scientific illustrations (NIH BioArt, Bioicons, Servier Medical Art, SciDraw, Health Icons, Reactome, OpenMoji) from a shell, a script, or an MCP client such as Claude.
pip install biocartoon # or: pipx install biocartoon / uv tool install biocartoon
This installs the biocartoon command, a single compiled program with no Python dependencies.
The first command that needs the catalog downloads it (about 19 MB); biocartoon sync updates it.
biocartoon search "pyramidal neuron" --source BA # best matches, one per title
biocartoon search mitochondria --category cells.organelles_and_cell_components
biocartoon --sources # collection codes (BA, BI, SV, ...)
biocartoon --categories # category slugs (cells.cell_types, ...)
biocartoon get bioart/424_633913 # license, credit, PNG/SVG URLs, variants
biocartoon fetch bioart/424_633913 --svg --out ~/Desktop # download the SVG (or the PNG)
biocartoon search "select license, count(*) from assets group by 1" # read-only SQL
biocartoon --version # when the local catalog was published
claude mcp add biocartoon -- biocartoon mcp # serve the tools (icons and shared templates) to an assistant
Every command takes --json. Run biocartoon --help for everything, and see the
repository
for more examples. The BioCartoon desktop editor ships a fuller biocartoon that also searches
slide templates and drives the running editor (biocartoon app ...).
Every illustration keeps its own upstream license (public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA, ...):
credit it as its credit field says. The program itself is BSD-2-Clause.
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