tavily-search
by Tomatio13
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Python
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Tavily AI search API
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| search | Search the web using Tavily API |
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAVILY_API_KEY | Yes | Your Tavily API key | |
| PYTHONIOENCODING | No | Encoding setting for Python I/O | utf-8 |
README.md
tavily-search MCP server
A MCP server project
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)
Install
- Download the repository.
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git clone https://github.com/Tomatio13/mcp-server-tavily.git
- Open the Claude Desktop configuration file.
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On MacOS: `~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
On Windows: `C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json`
- Edit the configuration file as follows:
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"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"
}
}
}
- Restart Claude Desktop.
Usage
In Claude Desktop, when you ask "Please search for something", you will receive search results.
Search example:
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Please search in detail for today's events in Kamakura
Response example:
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According to the search results, the following events start today, December 1st:
"Kamakura Promotion Photo Contest 2025"
Period: December 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
A photo contest for those who love Kamakura
Applications start accepting from today
Also, as a related upcoming event:
On December 7th, an exhibition by 12 Kamakura artists will be held at the Seibu Press Inn Kamakura Ofuna Station East Exit Lounge.
Log Storage Location
Logs are stored in the following location:
For Windows:
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C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Claude\logs\mcp-server-tavily-search
Running in Local Environment Using Docker Compose
Purpose
For operating systems other than Windows/MacOS where Claude Desktop cannot be used, this section explains how to set up and run an MCP server and client in a local environment using Docker compose.
Steps
- Install Docker.
- Download the repository.
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git clone https://github.com/Tomatio13/mcp-server-tavily.git
- Run Docker compose.
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docker compose up -d
- Execute the client.
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docker exec mcp_server uv --directory /usr/src/app/mcp-server-tavily/src run client.py
- Execution Results
- After searching for available tools as shown below, a query will be issued to Tavily and a response will be returned:
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2024-12-01 11:21:56,930 - tavily-search-server - INFO - Starting Tavily search server
2024-12-01 11:21:56,932 - tavily-search-server - INFO - Server initialized, starting main loop
2024-12-01 11:21:56,936 - mcp.server - INFO - Processing request of type ListToolsRequest
2024-12-01 11:21:56,936 - tavily-search-server - INFO - Listing available tools
利用可能なツール: nextCursor=None tools=[Tool(name='search', description='Search the web using Tavily API', inputSchema={'type': 'object', 'properties': {'query': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'Search query'}, 'search_depth': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'Search depth (basic or advanced)', 'enum': ['basic', 'advanced']}}, 'required': ['query']})]
2024-12-01 11:21:56,937 - mcp.server - INFO - Processing request of type CallToolRequest
2024-12-01 11:21:56,937 - tavily-search-server - INFO - TOOL_CALL_DEBUG: Tool called - name: search, arguments: {'query': '今日の東京タワーのイベントを教えて下さい'}
2024-12-01 11:21:56,937 - tavily-search-server - INFO - Executing search with query: '今日の東京タワーのイベントを教えて下さい'
2024-12-01 11:22:00,243 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: POST https://api.tavily.com/search "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
2024-12-01 11:22:00,243 - tavily-search-server - INFO - Search successful - Answer generated
2024-12-01 11:22:00,243 - tavily-search-server - INFO - Search successful - Results available
ツール実行結果: content=[TextContent(type='text', text='AI Answer:\n今日の東京タワーのイベントは以下の通りです：\n1. Candlelight: エド・シーランとコールドプレイのヒットメドレー - 12月01日\n2. チームラボプラネッツ TOKYO - 12月01日から1月21日\n\n他にもイベントがある可能性がありますので、公式ウェブサイト等で最新情報をご確認ください。\n\n\n\nSearch Results:\n\n1. 東京タワー (東京): 現在のイベントとチケット | Fever\nURL: https://feverup.com/ja/tokyo/venue/tokyo-tower\nSummary: Summary not found\n\n\n2. 東京タワー(東京都)の施設で開催するイベント一覧｜ウォーカープラス\nURL: https://www.walkerplus.com/spot/ar0313s03867/e_list.html\nSummary: Summary not found\n\n\n3. 東京タワー - Tokyo Tower\nURL: https://www.tokyotower.co.jp/event/\nSummary: Summary not found\n')] isError=False
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