docs: add You.com Search to Common MCP Servers#619
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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@brainsparker a bit of self-promotion me thinks? (Brian from You.com :) ) If not self-promotion, why recommend a paid service like you.com apis as opposed to duckduckgo (free) or something with a healthy free tier like tavily? To a common mcp servers list. |
We have a very free healthy tier. It's free for 100 queries/day, no auth required. https://you.com/docs/build-with-agents/mcp-server#authentication FWIW, DDG is a customer (they use our search product). |
According to your pricing page, it looks like all your tiers are paid. Is this the right you.com? |
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haha! Well that's a very good point. I'll update the pricing page to match Tavily's 😈 the free tier is only available via MCP at the moment, but we'll make that clear. Thanks for the idea! |
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Hey guys, I do like the concept of a reliable aggregation MCP service for live web search. I see you all publish a skills list here: I think republishing your skills here: so we can flesh out an MCP and skills library of vetted skills for the project to enable future auto-download commands in the cecli program would be a very welcome addition to our project. I am also okay with this PR as long as the wording around the free tier is made explicit and you all are okay with adding a My other, slightly more selfish ask is if you all could also add Cecli as an agent to the
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Adds a You.com Search entry to the Common MCP Servers section of the MCP config docs, following the Context7/DeepWiki pattern (remote streamable-http server).
Why it's a useful default entry: the config works with no API key — the free profile (
https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free) returns live web/news search results out of the box (rate limited per IP), which pairs well with local/offline models that can't reach the web, and complements/web(search for the right page, then scrape it). A commented variant shows the API-key mode that unlocks content extraction and cited research tools.Verified the config against a live MCP client (initialize handshake +
you-searchtool call) before submitting.Disclosure: I work at You.com (we host the MCP server). Happy to adjust placement or wording.
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