| name | exa-personal-site-search |
| description | Find personal websites with Exa — blogs, portfolios, and homepages. Use to find a person's own writing (not press about them), discover practitioners who blog, or surface indie/portfolio sites. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required. |
| license | MIT |
Personal Site Search (Exa)
Find personal blogs, portfolios, and homepages via Exa's personal-site index — a person's own voice rather than coverage of them. Calls the Exa REST API through a local script; no MCP server needed, only an EXA_API_KEY.
Setup (once)
export EXA_API_KEY=your-key
Get a key at https://dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys. Shared details: exa-native-base.
Run it
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "<who / what they write about>" [-n N] [--text]
Examples:
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "machine learning engineer personal blog" -n 10
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "indie hacker building in public portfolio" -n 12
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "Andrej Karpathy personal site essays" -n 5
Defaults to category=personal site.
Query patterns
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site distributed systems engineer blog" -n 12
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site <name> blog essays projects" -n 5
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site product designer portfolio case studies" -n 12
Hidden relationships & terminology
Personal sites are ideal for finding non-obvious connections (collaborators, longtime clients, mentors) that aren't listed anywhere. Use indirect signals:
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "<subject> conversation interview testimonial guest" -n 8
python ../exa-native-base/scripts/exa.py search "<subject> years decades longtime worked with known since" -n 10
Detect insider terminology on the subject's own pages, then search for others using those terms. (See the relationships pattern in exa-lead-generation.)
Override categories with -c
personal site (default) · linkedin profile (their professional profile) · news (press about them).
After you get results
- This index favours genuine personal sites; still treat results as similarity, not validation and open the page to confirm it's the right person.
- Deep-read with
python ../exa-native-base/scripts/exa.py contents <url> --text to assess voice/expertise.
- Deliver: name · site URL · what they write about · a representative post.
