Tavily
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A comprehensive search API for real-time web search, data extraction, and crawling, requiring a Tavily API key.
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- mertatesmen
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- Search, Other, API
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Setup
Install Tavily in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).
Repository: https://github.com/mertatesmen/tavily-mcp-sse
Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.
Tavily MCP Server implementation that uses fastmcp and supports bothsseandstdiotransports. To use this server, you need a Tavily account and a Tavily API key, which must be loaded into theTAVILY_API_KEYenvironment variable.
- search, extract, map, crawl tools
- Real-time web search capabilities through the tavily-search tool
- Intelligent data extraction from web pages via the tavily-extract tool
- Powerful web mapping tool that creates a structured map of website
- Web crawler that systematically explores websites
- gitinstalled. (To clone the repo)
- uvinstalled.
- dockerinstalled (Optional: If you are planning to use the SSE server inside a docker container).
To install uv in Linux and MacOS type this in your terminal:
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
Copy the.env.examplefile and rename that to.env. Then paste yourTAVILY_API_KEYinside there
Optional: You can also configure the port if you are planning to use SSE.
{ "mcpServers": { "tavily-mcp-server": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "run", "--directory", "<LOCATION-TO-THE-REPO>", "tavily-mcp-stdio" ], "env": { "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR-API-KEY>" } } } }
First you need to build the image using theDockerfileinside this repository. Run this to build the image:
Then you can run the container using the environment variables inside the env file
docker run --name tavily-mcp \ -p 127.0.0.1:8000:8000 \ --env-file .env \ tavily-mcp
Or you can specify the environment variables yourself.
docker run --name tavily-mcp \ -p 127.0.0.1:8000:8000 \ -e TAVILY_API_KEY=<YOUR-API-KEY> tavily-mcp
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