mcp-exa

MCP server exposing Exa websearch API

mcp-name: io.github.daedalus/mcp-exa

Install

pip install mcp-exa

Usage

Set up your API key

export EXA_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Run as MCP server

mcp-exa

Available Tools

The MCP server exposes the following Exa API methods as tools:

• search - Perform a web search

• find_similar - Find pages similar to a URL

• get_contents - Retrieve contents for URLs

• answer - Generate an answer using Exa's LLM capabilities

• stream_answer - Stream an answer response

• research_create - Create a research task

• research_get - Get a research task by ID

• research_poll_until_finished - Poll until research completes

• research_list - List research tasks

Development

git clone https://github.com/daedalus/mcp-exa.git
cd mcp-exa
pip install -e ".[test]"

# run tests
pytest

# format
ruff format src/ tests/

# lint
ruff check src/ tests/

# type check
mypy src/