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

Links

• Website: contextwire.dev
• API Docs: contextwire.dev/docs
• Quickstart: contextwire.dev/quickstart
• Playground: contextwire.dev/playground
• Compare: contextwire.dev/compare
• Status: contextwire.dev/status

License

MIT