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Tavily MCP

Tavily's official MCP server — production real-time search, extract, map, and crawl for agents.

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The official Tavily MCP server, exposing the four tools the search API is known for: search, extract, map, and crawl. A hosted remote endpoint makes it a two-line setup in Claude Code or Claude Desktop; a local npx server covers stdio setups. The pragmatic default for agents that need reliable real-time web search with usage-based pricing.

What it does

  • Tavily's search/extract/crawl MCP — real-time web search plus page extraction tuned for LLMs
  • Remote hosted endpoint `https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp` with OAuth, or `?tavilyApiKey=` for key auth
  • Local stdio package `tavily-mcp` for offline-config setups with TAVILY_API_KEY env

When to use it

Give Claude live web access: search current docs, extract article content, crawl a docs site. The remote endpoint avoids a local process; the npm package keeps everything local.

Getting started

Remote via mcp-remote (OAuth flow):

{
  "tavily-remote-mcp": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp"]
  }
}

Or key auth: append `?tavilyApiKey=<your-api-key>` to the URL. Local stdio: `npx -y tavily-mcp` with `TAVILY_API_KEY` env.

Things to know

Putting the API key in the URL means it lands in plaintext config files — OAuth is the cleaner path on the hosted endpoint. Search/extract calls bill against your Tavily quota; reset stored OAuth creds with `rm -rf ~/.mcp-auth` if they go stale.

Repository

tavily-ai/tavily-mcp

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