Search and docs · Tavily

Set up Tavily

Search, extract, crawl and map websites through Tavily's agent-oriented search API, hosted or run locally.

Publisher: Tavily Official
Hosted endpoint: https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp
Run locally: npx -y tavily-mcp@latest
Transports: streamable-http, stdio
Authentication: OAuth, or an API key in the URL when hosted; TAVILY_API_KEY when run locally.
Environment: TAVILY_API_KEY
What it can touch: Read-only.
Licence: MIT
Source: github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-mcp
Status: Active

Install

The vendor hosts this server, so you only add its URL and nothing runs on your machine. If it needs authentication, the row above says how; OAuth servers prompt you on first connection.

Claude Code

shell

claude mcp add --transport http --scope project tavily https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tavily": {
      "url": "https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.tavily]
url = "https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp"

Run it locally instead (Cursor)

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tavily": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tavily-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "${env:TAVILY_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config for other clients →

Other servers in search and docs

MCP Steering Group

Fetch

Fetches a web page and converts it to Markdown so the model can read it. Part of the MCP project's reference set.

AWS

AWS Knowledge

AWS-hosted search over AWS documentation, blog posts, What's New entries and regional availability.

Microsoft

Microsoft Learn

Search and fetch official Microsoft and Azure documentation and code samples.

Brave

Brave Search

Brave's own server for web, news, image, video and local search through the Brave Search API.

Exa

Neural web search, page contents and code-context search for agents, hosted by Exa or run locally with an API key.

Firecrawl

Scrape, crawl, search and extract structured data from websites as Markdown or JSON.

Sources

github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-mcp