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Constructs properly-formatted UTM links by accepting campaign parameters (source, medium, campaign, content, term) and appending them as query strings to base URLs. Validates parameter syntax and ensures URL encoding compliance, supporting both simple single-link generation and batch operations for multi-channel campaigns.
Unique: Integrates link building with downstream validation in a single preflight command, rather than treating link generation as a separate step — allows developers to validate that generated links actually resolve and contain proper metadata before campaign launch
vs alternatives: Faster than manual UTM builders or spreadsheet-based approaches because it combines generation, validation, and metadata inspection in one CLI invocation without context switching
Follows HTTP redirect chains (301, 302, 307, 308) to resolve final destination URLs, detecting redirect loops and validating that campaign links actually reach intended landing pages. Implements configurable timeout and hop limits to prevent infinite redirect scenarios, returning both the final URL and the complete redirect chain for debugging.
Unique: Combines redirect resolution with metadata inspection (OG tags, Twitter Cards) in a single validation pass, allowing developers to catch both broken redirects AND missing social metadata in one command rather than running separate tools
vs alternatives: More comprehensive than simple HTTP status checkers because it resolves the full redirect chain and validates final-destination metadata, not just the initial response code
Parses HTML responses to extract Open Graph (og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url) and Twitter Card (twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image) meta tags. Validates that required tags are present, image URLs are accessible, and dimensions meet platform specifications (e.g., Twitter image minimum 200x200px). Returns structured metadata report with validation status.
Unique: Validates both presence AND correctness of social metadata (e.g., image dimensions, URL accessibility) rather than just checking if tags exist, providing actionable feedback for fixing social preview issues
vs alternatives: More thorough than browser-based social preview tools because it validates metadata programmatically and can batch-check hundreds of URLs, making it suitable for CI/CD integration
Analyzes landing pages for mobile optimization signals including viewport meta tag presence, responsive CSS media queries, touch-friendly button sizes (minimum 44x44px), font readability (minimum 16px base), and viewport configuration. Returns structured report with specific issues and recommendations for improving mobile experience.
Unique: Combines multiple mobile readiness signals (viewport, CSS, font sizes, button dimensions) into a single validation report rather than checking each in isolation, providing a holistic mobile readiness score
vs alternatives: Faster than running Google Mobile-Friendly Test or Lighthouse for batch validation because it performs static analysis without rendering, making it suitable for pre-launch validation of dozens of campaign variants
Orchestrates all validation capabilities (redirect resolution, OG/Twitter metadata extraction, mobile readiness assessment) in a single CLI command, executing them in parallel or sequence based on configuration. Aggregates results into a comprehensive pre-launch report with pass/fail status, specific issues, and actionable remediation steps. Supports configuration files for reusable validation profiles.
Unique: Combines link building, validation, and inspection into a single atomic operation with configuration-driven profiles, allowing teams to define once and reuse validation standards across all campaigns rather than manually running separate tools
vs alternatives: More efficient than running separate validation tools because it batches network requests and aggregates results into a single report, reducing total validation time by 60-70% compared to sequential tool execution
Exposes campaign link building and validation capabilities as MCP server resources and tools, allowing AI agents and LLM-powered applications to programmatically generate UTM links, validate destinations, and inspect metadata. Implements MCP resource types for campaign configurations and validation results, enabling AI systems to reason about campaign health and suggest optimizations.
Unique: Implements MCP server pattern to expose campaign validation as composable tools for AI agents, enabling LLMs to reason about campaign health and suggest optimizations rather than just reporting validation results
vs alternatives: Enables AI-assisted campaign optimization that would be impossible with CLI-only tools, allowing LLMs to analyze validation results and suggest improvements (e.g., 'your OG image is too small, consider 1200x630px')
Executes web searches via the Tavily API and returns structured results with relevance scoring, source attribution, and clean text extraction optimized for LLM consumption. The MCP server marshals search queries through an axios HTTP client configured with the Tavily API key, parses JSON responses containing ranked results with URLs and snippets, and formats output for direct consumption by language models without additional preprocessing.
Unique: Tavily's search results are specifically optimized for LLM consumption with relevance scoring and clean formatting, rather than generic web search results. The MCP server wraps this via StdioServerTransport, enabling seamless integration into Claude Desktop and other MCP clients without custom HTTP handling.
vs alternatives: Returns LLM-ready formatted results with relevance scores out-of-the-box, whereas generic search APIs (Google, Bing) require additional parsing and ranking logic to be LLM-friendly.
Extracts clean, structured content from specified URLs using the Tavily extract endpoint, handling HTML parsing, boilerplate removal, and content normalization automatically. The server sends URLs to Tavily's extraction service via axios, receives parsed markdown or structured text, and returns content ready for LLM ingestion without requiring the client to manage web scraping libraries or HTML parsing.
Unique: Tavily's extraction service is optimized for LLM-ready output (markdown formatting, boilerplate removal, semantic structure preservation) rather than generic web scraping. The MCP server exposes this as a tool that agents can call directly without managing external scraping libraries.
vs alternatives: Handles boilerplate removal and content normalization automatically, whereas Puppeteer or Cheerio require custom logic to identify main content and remove navigation/ads.
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Provides pre-built configuration templates and integration guides for popular MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Cline), including JSON configuration snippets for claude_desktop_config.json, cursor settings, VS Code extensions, and Cline agent configuration. Each integration template specifies the MCP server command, environment variables, and client-specific setup steps.
Unique: Official Tavily MCP provides pre-built integration templates for major MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Cline), reducing setup friction. Each template includes specific configuration syntax and environment variable requirements for that client.
vs alternatives: Pre-built templates eliminate guesswork in client configuration, whereas generic MCP documentation requires users to adapt examples for Tavily-specific setup.
Crawls websites starting from a seed URL and recursively follows internal links up to a specified depth, extracting content from each page and returning a structured collection of crawled pages. The server manages crawl state through Tavily's crawl endpoint, controlling recursion depth and link-following behavior, and returns all discovered pages with their extracted content and metadata for bulk analysis or knowledge base construction.
Unique: Tavily's crawl service is designed for LLM-friendly bulk extraction with automatic content normalization across multiple pages, rather than generic web crawlers that return raw HTML. The MCP server exposes depth control and link-following as tool parameters, enabling agents to autonomously decide crawl scope.
vs alternatives: Handles content extraction and normalization across all crawled pages automatically, whereas Scrapy or Selenium require custom pipelines to extract and normalize content from each page individually.
Analyzes a website's structure and generates a semantic map of URLs organized by topic or content type, enabling agents to understand site organization without manual exploration. The tavily_map tool sends a seed URL to Tavily's mapping service, which crawls the site, clusters pages by semantic similarity, and returns a hierarchical structure of discovered URLs grouped by inferred topic or purpose.
Unique: Tavily's map tool uses semantic clustering to organize URLs by inferred topic rather than just crawling and returning a flat list. This enables agents to navigate large sites intelligently without exhaustive crawling.
vs alternatives: Provides semantic site structure discovery out-of-the-box, whereas generic crawlers return unorganized URL lists requiring post-processing to identify topic-relevant pages.
Orchestrates multi-step research workflows where an agent autonomously decides which search, extraction, and crawling steps to perform based on intermediate results. The tavily_research tool wraps the other four tools and manages state across multiple API calls, allowing agents to refine queries, follow promising leads, and synthesize findings without explicit step-by-step instruction from the user.
Unique: The research tool enables agents to autonomously orchestrate search, extraction, and crawling steps based on intermediate findings, rather than requiring explicit tool calls for each step. This leverages the agent's reasoning to decide research strategy dynamically.
vs alternatives: Enables autonomous research workflows where agents decide next steps based on findings, whereas manual tool-calling requires explicit user or system prompts to specify each search or extraction step.
Implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server specification using TypeScript and StdioServerTransport, enabling the Tavily tools to be exposed as MCP tools callable by any MCP-compatible client. The server registers tool handlers via setRequestHandler(ListToolsRequestSchema, ...) and CallToolRequestSchema, marshaling tool calls from clients through to Tavily API endpoints and returning results in MCP-compliant format.
Unique: Official Tavily MCP server implementation using StdioServerTransport for direct process communication, enabling zero-configuration integration into Claude Desktop and other MCP clients. Supports both remote (hosted) and local deployment models.
vs alternatives: Official MCP implementation ensures compatibility and feature parity with Tavily API, whereas third-party MCP wrappers may lag behind API updates or lack full feature support.
Supports both remote deployment (hosted at https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/) and local self-hosted deployment (via NPX, Docker, or Git), with different authentication models for each. Remote deployment uses URL parameters or Bearer token headers for API key passing, while local deployment uses TAVILY_API_KEY environment variable. Both expose identical tool capabilities through the same MCP interface.
Unique: Official Tavily MCP provides both remote (zero-setup) and local (self-hosted) deployment options with identical tool capabilities, enabling users to choose based on security, latency, and infrastructure requirements. Remote uses OAuth and Bearer tokens; local uses environment variables.
vs alternatives: Dual deployment model provides flexibility that single-deployment solutions lack; users can start with remote for quick testing and migrate to local for production without code changes.
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