Dappier MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects any LLM or Agentic AI to real-time, rights-cleared, proprietary data from trusted sources. Dappier enables your AI to become an expert in anything by providing access to specialized models, including Real-Time Web Search, News, Sports, Financial Stock Market Data, Crypto Data, and exclusive content from premium publishers. Explore a wide range of data models in our marketplace at marketplace.dappier.com.

Features

Real-Time Web Search: Access real-time Google web search results, including the latest news, weather, stock prices, travel, deals, and more.
Stock Market Data: Get real-time financial news, stock prices, and trades from Polygon.io, with AI-powered insights and up-to-the-minute updates.
AI-Powered Recommendations: Personalized content discovery across Sports, Lifestyle News, and niche favorites like I Heart Dogs, I Heart Cats, Green Monster, WishTV, and many more.
Structured JSON Responses: Rich metadata for articles, including titles, summaries, images, and source URLs.
Flexible Customization: Choose from predefined data models, similarity filtering, reference domain filtering, and search algorithms.

Tools

1. Real-Time Data Search

Name: dappier_real_time_search
Description: Retrieves direct answers to real-time queries using AI-powered search. This includes web search results, financial information, news, weather, stock market updates, and more.
Parameters:
- query (string, required): The user-provided input string for retrieving real-time data.
- ai_model_id (string, optional): The AI model ID to use for the query. Defaults to am_01j06ytn18ejftedz6dyhz2b15 (Real-Time Data).

2. AI Recommendations

Name: dappier_ai_recommendations
Description: Provides AI-powered content recommendations based on structured data models. Returns a list of articles with titles, summaries, images, and source URLs.
Parameters:
- query (string, required): The user-provided input string for AI recommendations.
- data_model_id (string, optional): The data model ID to use for recommendations. Defaults to dm_01j0pb465keqmatq9k83dthx34 (Sports News).
- similarity_top_k (integer, optional): The number of top documents to retrieve based on similarity. Defaults to 9.
- ref (string, optional): The site domain where AI recommendations should be displayed. Defaults to None.
- num_articles_ref (integer, optional): The minimum number of articles to return from the specified reference domain (ref). Defaults to 0.
- search_algorithm (string, optional): The search algorithm to use for retrieving articles. Options: most_recent, semantic, most_recent_semantic, trending. Defaults to most_recent.

Setup Instructions

Installing via Smithery

To install dappier-mcp for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @DappierAI/dappier-mcp --client claude

1. Get Dappier API Key

Head to Dappier to sign up and generate an API key.

2. Install Dependencies

Install uv first.

MacOS/Linux:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Windows:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

3. Install Dappier MCP Server

pip install dappier-mcp

Or if you have uv installed:

uv pip install dappier-mcp

4. Configure Claude Desktop

Update your Claude configuration file (claude_desktop_config.json) with the following content:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dappier": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["dappier-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "DAPPIER_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration file location:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Examples

Real-Time Data Search

Query: "How is the weather today in Austin, TX?"
Query: "What is the latest news for Meta?"
Query: "What is the stock price for AAPL?"

AI Recommendations

Query: "Show me the latest sports news."
Query: "Find trending articles on sustainable living."
Query: "Get pet care recommendations from IHeartDogs AI."

Debugging

Run the MCP inspector to debug the server:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx dappier-mcp

Contributing

We welcome contributions to expand and improve the Dappier MCP Server. Whether you want to add new search capabilities, enhance existing functionality, or improve documentation, your input is valuable.

For examples of other MCP servers and implementation patterns, see: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers

Pull requests are welcome! Feel free to contribute new ideas, bug fixes, or enhancements.

Integrations