---
title: "looker-generate-embed-url"
type: docs
weight: 1
description: >
"looker-generate-embed-url" generates an embeddable URL for Looker content.
aliases:
- /resources/tools/looker-generate-embed-url
---
## About
The `looker-generate-embed-url` tool generates an embeddable URL for a given
piece of Looker content. The url generated is created for the user authenticated
to the Looker source. When opened in the browser it will create a Looker Embed
session.
It's compatible with the following sources:
- [looker](../../sources/looker.md)
`looker-generate-embed-url` takes two parameters:
1. the `type` of content (e.g., "dashboards", "looks", "query-visualization")
2. the `id` of the content
It's recommended to use other tools from the Looker MCP toolbox with this tool
to do things like fetch dashboard id's, generate a query, etc that can be
supplied to this tool.
## Example
```yaml
tools:
generate_embed_url:
kind: looker-generate-embed-url
source: looker-source
description: |
This tool generates a signed, private embed URL for specific Looker content,
allowing users to access it directly.
Parameters:
- type (required): The type of content to embed. Common values include:
- `dashboards`
- `looks`
- `explore`
- id (required): The unique identifier for the content.
- For dashboards and looks, use the numeric ID (e.g., "123").
- For explores, use the format "model_name/explore_name".
```
## Reference
| **field** | **type** | **required** | **description** |
|-------------|:--------:|:------------:|----------------------------------------------------|
| kind | string | true | Must be "looker-generate-embed-url" |
| source | string | true | Name of the source the SQL should execute on. |
| description | string | true | Description of the tool that is passed to the LLM. |
