ContextWire MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server that gives AI agents access to web search across 105 engines, academic research, content extraction, and more.

94.3% accuracy on SimpleQA benchmark.

Quick Setup

Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contextwire": {
      "url": "https://contextwire.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

No local server needed — it's a hosted MCP endpoint.

Tools

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | | Ask a factual question → synthesized answer with sources | | | Web search across 105 engines with 14 search profiles | | | Extract clean text/markdown from any URL | | | Search academic papers (arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, etc.) | | | Run multiple searches in parallel |

Search Profiles

| Profile | Engines | Best for | |---------|---------|----------| | | Google, Bing, DDG, Wikipedia | General search | | | Google News, Bing News | Current events | | | arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar | Research papers | | | GitHub, StackOverflow | Programming | | | Hacker News, Lobsters, Reddit | Developer news | | | Yahoo Finance, market data | Financial data | | | GitHub, GitLab | Code repositories | | | npm, PyPI, crates.io | Package search | | | CVE databases | Security advisories | | | Reddit, Twitter | Social media | | | Wikipedia, Wiktionary | Reference material | | | Google Images, Bing Images | Image search | | | YouTube, Vimeo | Video search | | | All 105 engines | Maximum coverage |

API Examples

Ask a question

curl "https://contextwire.dev/api/ask" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"q": "What is the current price of Bitcoin?"}'

Search with profiles

curl "https://contextwire.dev/api/search?q=rust+async+tutorial&profile=code" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

Extract a page

curl "https://contextwire.dev/api/extract?url=https://example.com&format=markdown" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

Free Tier

1,000 queries/month — no credit card required
BYOK supported — bring your own LLM key to save credits
/bin/bash LLM cost — default model is free via OpenRouter

Get your API key at contextwire.dev.

Node.js SDK

npm install @contextwire/sdk

import { ContextWire } from '@contextwire/sdk';

const cw = new ContextWire('YOUR_API_KEY');
const answer = await cw.ask('Who invented the transistor?');
console.log(answer.answer);

SDK repo: github.com/keptlive/contextwire-sdk

License

MIT

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