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Exa MCP — neural/semantic web search + content retrieval (exa.ai)

3 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

get_contents

Retrieve clean, parsed page contents (text) for one or more Exa result IDs or URLs. Use after search to read the full content of pages. Example: get_contents({ ids: ["https://example.com/article"] })

No parameters required.

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find_similar

Find pages similar to a given URL using neural/semantic matching. Returns title, URL, relevance score, and published date. Example: find_similar({ url: "https://example.com/great-article", num_results

No parameters required.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/exa/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/exa/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("exa mcp — neural/semantic web search + content retrieval (exa");