Download problems with images vs svg with Cursor

[MustafaBKLZ]

Hello,
I'm having trouble getting images & svg inside a design (node) in Figma.

I tried to check this link http://localhost:3334/sse step by step.

event: endpoint
data: /messages?sessionId=51805782-21b5-4a27-a582-14b4451eec9f

event: message
data: {"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Success, 3 images downloaded: \d%3A\Apps\figma-mcp-test\images\group10000071000pro.png, \d%3A\Apps\figma-mcp-test\images\ellipse157.svg, \d%3A\Apps\figma-mcp-test\images\vector417.svg"}]},"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3}

This is the message I see on the screen. The images appear to be downloaded, but for some reason the images cannot be downloaded to the project folder.

I can also see the image links in the terminal area. However, when I get the url and check it in the browser, I get the error
{"status":403,"err":"Invalid token"}.

Moreover, I see this error when the connection is open in the terminal. It says "Invalid token" but I just got the token and ran it with the command "npx figma-developer-mcp --figma-api-key= --port=3334".

There seems to be no problem in getting styles, texts, sizes etc. but there seems to be a problem in downloading image and svg files.

I tried this on both a pro figma account and a free account. Both fail to download images and svg's.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong here.

Some console autput
New SSE connection established
Fetching all layers of node 1-4 from file XG7wT05Op3SkXuAtxdtoTK at depth: all layers
Calling https://api.figma.com/v1/files/XG7wT05Op3SkXuAtxdtoTK/nodes?ids=1-4
Successfully fetched file: Untitled
Fetching all layers of full file XG7wT05Op3SkXuAtxdtoTK at depth: all layers
Retrieving Figma file: XG7wT05Op3SkXuAtxdtoTK (depth: default)
Calling https://api.figma.com/v1/files/XG7wT05Op3SkXuAtxdtoTK
Got response
Successfully fetched file: Untitled

I keep getting invalid token error.

[VienLi]

The image URL in the terminal cannot be accessed directly. It must be called using the API-KEY during operation.
I guess the problem may be that there is no write permission to the \d%3A\Apps\figma-mcp-test\images directory, which causes the write failure

[oshriza]

Also for me, I saw that he created a folder called: 'd%3A' and he downloaded the image inside this folder but not to the project folders
@GLips any idea of it's happened?

Thanks :)

[MustafaBKLZ]

Also for me, I saw that he created a folder called: 'd%3A' and he downloaded the image inside this folder but not to the project folders @GLips any idea of it's happened?

Thanks :)

Just like me. I saw that folder in D drive after. İmages downloaded but wrrong place. Images must be downloaded project folder.

[VienLi]

When mcp downloads images, mcp requires a localPath parameter.
The parameter description is: The absolute path to the directory where images are stored in the project. Automatically creates directories if needed.
The cursor client infers a suitable localPath on the project structure and the parameter description.

In your case, the cursor client did not find a directory to store images in the project, so it created one.
The solution is that you can specify in the dialog which directory to store the images.
Or declare which directory is the image directory in the global rules @MustafaBKLZ @oshriza

[MustafaBKLZ]

Cursor creates a folder (in project folder) but mcp cannot download files to the folder that Cursor opens. Folder permissions are set to everyone and even if I open Cursor as administrator, it still does not work. Mcp always downloads files to the 'd%3A' folder or somewhere else. But it never downloads to the folder inside the project.

So the files are downloading okay, but no matter what I did, I couldn't get the images to download to the correct location. So this is happening even though I gave the file path as a prompt. There is no settings area on the MCP page either. How can we make this work correctly?

By "global rules" do you mean the "Cursor Settings / Rules" area?

There are also problems with extracting the design exactly, but I will open it with another issue.

[imyoga]

+1

[kotamiyazono]

I also encountered and resolved this issue on Windows.
I solved the problem by adding the following text to the agent's prompt:

• When downloading images with Figma MCP, always format file paths using forward slashes, like 'C:/Users/username/project/img'
• Do not use special character escaping (e.g., do not use %3A instead of :)"
  I think adding this to Cursor Settings/Rules would also work.
  @MustafaBKLZ

[GLips]

Oh, that's a great tip @kotamiyazono. I'll update the description for the MCP tool to download images to coax the LLM to respect the conventions of the OS it's running on. Hopefully that makes this more reliable!

[MustafaBKLZ]

Yes. Thanks @kotamiyazono. This is work. I add that sentence as a cursor rule.

[cybersecurityplus]

In my case, [ERROR] Error downloading images from file cUnPb6mnaHzjWRO0qSoCww: { status: 400, err: 'Bad Request' }