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Tavily MCP Server
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- Type
- MCP server
- Tasks
- Web fetching & scrapingLibrary docs & research
- Compatible agents
- Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor (source: clients with setup instructions in the official README (tavily-ai/tavily-mcp))
- Verdict
- Pick it for real-time web search plus page extraction, site mapping and crawling in one server; needs a Tavily key or OAuth, and every query goes to Tavily.
- Permissions
- Sends search queries and URLs to Tavily's API: tavily-search, tavily-extract, tavily-map and tavily-crawl; no local file access.
- Credentials
- Tavily API key (free tier available) in the URL or an Authorization header, or OAuth on the remote server.
- Maintenance
- npm tavily-mcp v0.2.22; no GitHub release; last commit 2026-10-15
- License
- MIT
- Install
- Remote: connect to https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp. Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http tavily https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp` (OAuth) or append `?tavilyApiKey=<your-api-key>`; local: `npx -y tavily-mcp@latest` with TAVILY_API_KEY. Official install docs ↗
- Source
- https://github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-mcp
- Verified on
- 2026-10-21
Compared in: Best MCP servers for Library docs & research · Best MCP servers for Web fetching & scraping
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