octen-mcp

MCP server for Octen. Plug it into Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, or any MCP client to give your agent live web search and URL extraction.

Core capabilities:

• search: search the live web with domain, text, language, and time filters.
• news_search: recent news, returned both as articles and as storylines — the coverage grouped into subjects, each with a summary and the span it covers.
• pulse_search: the URL a query most likely means, in about 10ms — official docs, help centres, a site you could almost name. No freshness, no filters.
• place_search: real-world places as structured cards — address, coordinates, phone, opening hours, rating — around a point you give it, or in an area the query names.
• business_search: a company or person, returned as a structured card — profile, financials, key people, career history, recent announcements — alongside the sources behind it.
• broad_search: decompose a query into multiple sub-queries, search them concurrently, and return results grouped per sub-query for broad coverage.
• extract: turn one or more URLs into clean, LLM-ready content.
• image_search: search the web for images by text query, by a reference image URL, or by base64 image data — exactly one of the three.
• video_search (In Beta — contact us for beta access): search the web for videos by text query.

What makes Octen useful for agents is that extract returns more than page text. Each successful result also includes:

• category: what the page is about
• page_structure: what kind of page it is
• highlights: ranked snippets when you pass a query

That lets an agent skip login walls, nav pages, and off-topic URLs before spending tokens on the full body.

Why Octen MCP

Fast

Web search averages 62ms. Fast enough for multi-step MCP workflows.

Accurate

Powered by SOTA text and VL embedding models. Better sources, fewer hallucinations.

Fresh

Live web data with minute-level updates. Useful for news, prices, and fast-moving pages.

Efficient

Clean highlights, optional full_content, and page labels keep model context relevant.

Quick start

You need an OCTEN_API_KEY from octen.ai — or nothing at all, if your client signs in over OAuth (see Signing in instead).

Two ways to connect. Both serve the same six tools.