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Install to Claude Code

This server doesn't publish a one-line install command. Follow the setup in the source repository.

Summary

Enable AI assistants to perform web searches using Perplexity's Sonar Pro.

README.md

Perplexity Search MCP

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A simple Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Perplexity's web search with sonar or sonar-pro.

Features

  • Provides a search tool for AI assistants to perform web searches
  • Uses Perplexity's chat completions API with the sonar/sonar-pro models

Tool: search

The server provides a search tool with the following input parameters:

  • query (required): The search query to perform
  • search_recency_filter (optional): Filter search results by recency (options: month, week, day, hour). If not specified, no time filtering is applied.

Configuration

Environment Variables

  • PERPLEXITY_API_KEY: Your Perplexity API key (required)

Response Format

The response from the search tool includes:

  • content: The search results content
  • citations: Array of citations for the information

License

MIT

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