perplexity-mcp 0.1.2

Perplexity MCP Server

perplexity-mcp MCP server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search functionality using Perplexity AI's API. Works with the Anthropic Claude desktop client.

Components

Prompts

The server provides a single prompt:

• perplexity_search_web: Search the web using Perplexity AI
  • Required "query" argument for the search query
  • 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
  • Returns search results from Perplexity's API

Installation

Using uv (recommended)

# Install from source
uv pip install git+https://github.com/jsonallen/perplexity-mcp.git

# Or install in development mode
git clone https://github.com/jasonallen/perplexity-mcp.git
cd perplexity-mcp
uv pip install -e .

Environment Variables

The following environment variable is required in your claude_desktop_config.json. You can obtain an API key from Perplexity

• PERPLEXITY_API_KEY: Your Perplexity AI API key

Claude Desktop

Add this tool as a mcp server

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

  "perplexity-mcp": {
    "env": {
      "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "123456790"
    },
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [
      "--directory",
      "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/perplexity-mcp",
      "run",
      "perplexity-mcp"
    ]
  }