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ai.smithery/arjunkmrm-perplexity-search

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

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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

Config for your environment

Use the endpoint URL below in your config. No API key — you connect directly.

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Config file: ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://server.smithery.ai/@arjunkmrm/perplexity-search/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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If this MCP is also published on mcpchannel.ai, you can subscribe from Browse and use the gateway config there instead.