Perplexity MCP

🚀 Perplexity MCP MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search functionality using the Perplexity AI API. It works in conjunction with the Anthropic desktop client Claude.

🚀 Quick Start

Example

You can use prompts similar to the following: "Search the internet to find out what's new with Anthropic in the past week."

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✨ Features

Prompts

This server offers a prompt:

• perplexity_search_web: Search the internet using Perplexity AI.
  • It requires a mandatory parameter "query" for the search query.
  • It has an optional parameter "recency" to filter results by time range:
    • 'day': Past 24 hours
    • 'week': Past 7 days
    • 'month': Past 30 days (default)
    • 'year': Past 365 days
  • It uses Perplexity's API for web search.

Tools

This server implements a tool:

• perplexity_search_web: Search the internet using Perplexity AI.
  • It accepts a mandatory string parameter "query".
  • It has an optional "recency" parameter to filter results by time range (day/week/month/year).
  • It returns the search results from the Perplexity API.

📦 Installation

Install via Smithery

Automatically install Perplexity MCP for Claude Desktop through Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install perplexity-mcp --client claude

Environment Variable Configuration

Add the following content to the claude_config.json file:

{
  "servers": {
    "perplexity_search_web": {
      "class": "PerplexityMCPrompt",
      "config": {
        "query_param": "query"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration in Cursor and Claude Desktop

Configuration in Cursor

1. Open the ~/.config/Cursor/config.json file.
2. Add the following content:

{
  "mcp_version": "0.5",
  "api_keys": {
    "perplexity_api_key": "your_perplexity_api_key"
  },
  "servers": {
    "perplexity_search_web": {
      "class": "PerplexityMCPrompt",
      "config": {
        "query_param": "query"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration in Claude Desktop

1. Open the claude_config.json file.
2. Add the following content:

{
  "mcp_version": "0.5",
  "servers": {
    "perplexity_search_web": {
      "class": "PerplexityMCPrompt",
      "config": {
        "query_param": "query"
      }
    }
  }
}

To verify if the server is working properly, open the Claude client and use a prompt like: "Search the internet for news about OpenAI in the past week." You should see a pop - up window confirming the use of the tool. Click "Allow this conversation".