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Perform web searches using the Tavily Search API.

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tavily-search MCP server

A MCP server project

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Components

This server uses the Tavily API to perform searches based on specified queries.

  • Search results are returned in text format.
  • Search results include AI responses, URIs, and titles of the search results.

Tools

This server implements the following tools:

  • search: Performs searches based on specified queries
    • Required argument: "query"
    • Optional argument: "search_depth" (basic or advanced)

Installing via Smithery

To install Tavily Search for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install tavily-search --client claude

Install

  1. Download the repository.
git clone https://github.com/Tomatio13/mcp-server-tavily.git
  1. Open the Claude Desktop configuration file.
On MacOS: `~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
On Windows: `C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json`
  1. Edit the configuration file as follows:
"mcpServers": {
  "tavily-search": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [
      "--directory",
      "C:\\your_path\\mcp-server-tavily",
      "run",
      "tavily-search"
    ],
    "env": {
      "TAVILY_API_KEY": "YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY",
      "PYTHONIOENCODING": "utf-8"
    }
  }
}
  1. Restart Claude Desktop.

Log Storage Location

Logs are stored in the following location:

For Windows:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Claude\logs\mcp-server-tavily-search

Execution with Cursor

  1. Create a shell script (e.g., script.sh) as shown below:
#!/bin/bash
TARGET_DIR=/path/to/mcp-server-tavily
cd "${TARGET_DIR}"
export TAVILY_API_KEY="your-api-key"
export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
uv --directory $PWD run tavily-search
  1. Configure Cursor's MCP Server settings as follows:
Name: tavily-search
Type: command
Command: /path/to/your/script.sh
  1. Save the settings.

  2. Once the settings are saved, you can ask Cursor's Composer-Agent to "search for something," and it will return the search results.