MCP Tavily Search Server

spences10/mcp-tavily-search

An MCP server that integrates Tavily's search API with LLMs, providing web search optimized for factual results, including context generation for RAG and direct question answering.

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Install

npx -y mcp-tavily-search

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-tavily-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-tavily-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<TAVILY_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

TAVILY_API_KEY

GitHub stars: 9
Author: @spences10
Category: Developer Tools, AI Chatbot
License: MIT
Updated: Oct 6, 2026

Features

Advanced web search capabilities through Tavily API
AI-generated summaries of search results
Domain filtering for higher quality results
Configurable search depth and parameters
Context generation for RAG applications
Direct question answering capabilities
Response caching with TTL support
Multiple response formats (text, JSON, markdown)
Structured result formatting optimized for LLMs
Built on the Model Context Protocol

Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README

Supported clients

Clients mentioned in this server's README:

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