exa-search

name	exa-search
description	Web search, code context, company research, and deep research via Exa API. Use when searching the web, finding code examples/docs, researching companies, crawling URLs, or running deep AI research tasks. Triggers on: web search, find code, research company, crawl page, people search.

Exa Search

Search the web and extract content via Exa's AI-powered search API.

Installation

mcporter install exa-cli

CLI: exa-cli

All commands support --output json for machine-readable output.

Web Search

# Basic search
exa-cli web-search-exa --query "latest AI news"

# With options
exa-cli web-search-exa --query "React hooks tutorial" --num-results 5 --type fast

Code Context

Find code examples, docs, and solutions from GitHub, Stack Overflow, and official docs.

exa-cli get-code-context-exa --query "Node.js streams examples"
exa-cli get-code-context-exa --query "Python pandas filtering" --tokens-num 10000

Company Research

exa-cli company-research-exa --company-name "Anthropic"
exa-cli company-research-exa --company-name "OpenAI" --num-results 5

URL Crawling

Extract full content from a specific URL.

exa-cli crawling-exa --url "https://example.com/article"
exa-cli crawling-exa --url "https://docs.example.com" --max-characters 5000

People Search

Find professionals and their profiles.

exa-cli people-search-exa --query "AI researchers at Google"

Advanced Search

Full control over filters, domains, dates, and content options.

exa-cli web-search-advanced-exa --query "machine learning" \
  --category "research paper" \
  --include-domains "arxiv.org,github.com" \
  --num-results 10

Categories: company, research paper, news, pdf, github, tweet, personal site, people, financial report

Deep Research

Start an AI research agent for complex questions (15s-2min).

# Start research
exa-cli deep-researcher-start --instructions "Compare transformer architectures for NLP"

# Check status (use returned task ID)
exa-cli deep-researcher-check --task-id "abc123"

Models: exa-research (faster, default) | exa-research-pro (comprehensive)

Notes

• No API key needed (uses hosted endpoint at mcp.exa.ai)
• Returns clean, LLM-ready text content
• Deep research runs async; poll with deep-researcher-check