Tavily's official MCP server exposes its search, extract, map and crawl APIs to AI assistants. It can be used as a hosted remote server (API key in URL or OAuth) or run locally via npx with a TAVILY_API_KEY.
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- 1Connect it in ChatGPT
Turn on Developer mode in ChatGPT (Settings → Security and login), open Plugins, select + and paste https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/ as the MCP server URL. Add it to a chat from the composer's tools menu.
- 2Or add it to Codex or the API
codex mcp add tavily --url https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/ --bearer-token-env-var TAVILY_API_KEY
Configs are generated from the publisher's documented endpoint. Check their docs for plan requirements and scopes. New to this? Read the step-by-step tutorial.
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tavily-searchtavily-extracttavily-maptavily-crawlThings to ask
- “Search for today's news about the EU AI Act”
- “Extract the main content from these three URLs”
- “Map all pages under docs.example.com”
- “Crawl this blog and summarize posts about pricing”
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