tavily-mcp-python

Tavily MCP Server

Tavily MCP Server implementation that uses fastmcp and supports both sse and stdio transports. To use this server, you need a Tavily account and a Tavily API key, which must be loaded into the TAVILY_API_KEY environment variable.

The Tavily MCP server provides:

• search, extract, map, crawl tools
• Real-time web search capabilities through the tavily-search tool
• Intelligent data extraction from web pages via the tavily-extract tool
• Powerful web mapping tool that creates a structured map of website
• Web crawler that systematically explores websites

Prerequisites

• git installed. (To clone the repo)
• uv installed.
• docker installed (Optional: If you are planning to use the SSE server inside a docker container).

To install uv in Linux and MacOS type this in your terminal:

Environment Variables

Copy the .env.example file and rename that to .env. Then paste your TAVILY_API_KEY inside there

Optional: You can also configure the port if you are planning to use SSE.

Running the SSE server

While inside the repo run:

Running on STDIO

Docker SSE Server

First you need to build the image using the Dockerfile inside this repository. Run this to build the image:

Then you can run the container using the environment variables inside the env file

Or you can specify the environment variables yourself.