ai.smithery/arjunkmrm-perplexity-search

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

ai.smithery/arjunkmrm-perplexity-search (Perplexity Search MCP)

This Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enables AI assistants to perform web searches using Perplexity’s Sonar Pro (sonar/sonar-pro). It exposes a search tool that routes search requests through Perplexity’s chat completions API.

🛠️ Key Features

Provides a search tool for web searches
Uses Perplexity chat completions API with sonar/sonar-pro models

🚀 Use Cases

Perform web research by submitting a search query to the search tool
Optionally narrow results using a search_recency_filter

⚡ Developer Benefits

Simple tool interface centered on a required query parameter
Optional search_recency_filter to constrain search recency

⚠️ Limitations

Tool input includes query and an optional search_recency_filter; no other capabilities are described in the provided source.

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Perplexity Search MCP

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

Install

Remote endpoint

Streamable HTTP

Hosted server - connect over the network, no local install.

url

https://server.smithery.ai/@arjunkmrm/perplexity-search/mcp

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claude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "arjunkmrm-perplexity-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://server.smithery.ai/@arjunkmrm/perplexity-search/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Desktop config is stdio-only; this bridges via mcp-remote. Native remote: Settings > Connectors.