# arjunkmrm-perplexity-search [Health: Active]

**Category:** 🔎 Search & Data Extraction  
**Repository:** https://github.com/arjunkmrm/perplexity-search  
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**Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/arjunkmrm-perplexity-search

## Description
Enable AI assistants to perform web searches using Perplexity's Sonar Pro.

## Tools
Capabilities this server exposes over MCP:

- **query**
- **search_recency_filter**

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Heuristic fallback — verify the package name and runner against the repository README before running it. Uses `npx` (confidence: low):

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "arjunkmrm-perplexity-search": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y","arjunkmrm-perplexity-search"]
  }
}
```

## Documentation & README

# Perplexity Search MCP

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A simple Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Perplexity's web search with sonar or sonar-pro.

## Features

- Provides a `search` tool for AI assistants to perform web searches
- Uses Perplexity's chat completions API with the sonar/sonar-pro models

## Tool: search

The server provides a `search` tool with the following input parameters:

- `query` (required): The search query to perform
- `search_recency_filter` (optional): Filter search results by recency (options: month, week, day, hour). If not specified, no time filtering is applied.

## Configuration

### Environment Variables

- `PERPLEXITY_API_KEY`: Your Perplexity API key (required)

## Response Format

The response from the `search` tool includes:

- `content`: The search results content
- `citations`: Array of citations for the information

## License

MIT