# perplexity-mcp

> MCP integration for Perplexity AI web searches

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/jason-allen-perplexity-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Jason Allen
- version: 0.1.7
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:perplexity-mcp

### Description (declared)

# perplexity-mcp MCP server

[![smithery badge](https://smithery.ai/badge/perplexity-mcp)](https://smithery.ai/server/perplexity-mcp)

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search functionality using [Perplexity AI's](https://www.perplexity.ai/) API. Works with the [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol) Claude desktop client.

## Example

Let's you use prompts like, "Search the web to find out what's new at Anthropic in the past week."

## Glama Scores

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## Components

### Prompts

The server provides a single prompt:

- perplexity_search_web: Search the web using Perplexity AI
  - Required "query" argument for the search query
  - Optional "recency" argument to filter results by time period:
    - 'day': last 24 hours
    - 'week': last 7 days
    - 'month': last 30 days (default)
    - 'year': last 365 days
  - Uses Perplexity's API to perform web searches

### Tools

The server implements one tool:

- perplexity_search_web: Search the web using Perplexity AI
  - Takes "query" as a required string argument
  - Optional "recency" parameter to filter results (day/week/month/year)
  - Returns search results from Perplexity's API

## Installation

### Installing via Smithery

To install Perplexity MCP for Claude Desktop automatically via [Smithery](https://smithery.ai/server/perplexity-mcp):

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

### Requires [UV](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) (Fast Python package and project manager)

If uv isn't installed.

```bash
# Using Homebrew on macOS
brew install uv
```

or

```bash
# On macOS and Linux.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# On Windows.
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"
```

### Environment Variables

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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.web-search (0.894, derived)
- ai.prompting (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/perplexity-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T09:26:03.507Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/jason-allen-perplexity-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/jason-allen-perplexity-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:jason-allen-perplexity-mcp