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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. Example Let's you use prompts like, "Search the web to find out what's new at Anthropic in the past week." Glama Scores Components Prompts The server provides a single prompt: perplexitysearchweb: 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: perplexitysearchweb: 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://smith
| Stars | 308 |
| Forks | 46 |
| Language | Python |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 75.3114155993948/100 |
| Open Issues | 9 |
| Last Updated | 2025-03-27 |
| Created | 2024-12-27 |
| Platforms | browser, mcp, python |
| Est. Tokens | ~2k |
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perplexity-mcp is A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search functionality using Perplexity AI's API.. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 308 GitHub stars.
perplexity-mcp is primarily written in Python.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the perplexity-mcp GitHub repository at github.com/jsonallen/perplexity-mcp. The project has 308 stars and 46 forks, indicating an active community.
perplexity-mcp is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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