Bocha Web Search
Provides web search capabilities to AI assistants through the Bocha API with customizable filters for freshness, domains, and result summarization.
Enables AI to perform web searches with customizable parameters including freshness filters, domain controls, and result summarization for retrieving up-to-date information from the internet.
What it does
- Search the web with customizable queries
- Filter results by time periods (day, week, month, year)
- Include or exclude specific domains
- Generate summarized search results
- Control number of results returned
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About Bocha Web Search
Bocha Web Search is a community-built MCP server published by intounknown that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Bocha Web Search offers advanced features using a Google web search API for real-time, customizable internet results and summaries. It is categorized under search web.
How to install
You can install Bocha Web Search in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
License
Bocha Web Search is released under the Apache-2.0 license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
mcp-bocha
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search capabilities to AI agents using the Bocha API.
Introduction
MCP-Bocha is a tool that exposes Bocha AI's web search API capabilities through the Model Context Protocol. It allows AI assistants to search the web programmatically, enabling tasks such as information retrieval, research, and up-to-date data collection.
Tools
| Tool Name | Description | Parameters |
|---|---|---|
mcp-bocha_search | Search the web for information | query: The search query stringfreshness: Optional time filter ["oneDay", "oneWeek", "oneMonth", "oneYear", "noLimit"]summary: Optional boolean for summarized resultsinclude: Optional array of domains to includeexclude: Optional array of domains to excludecount: Optional number of results to return |
Usage
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-bocha": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@humansean/mcp-bocha"],
"env": {
"BOCHA_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"
}
}
}
}
License
Apache-2.0 license
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