Jina AI MCP Server: Setup for Claude, Cursor and Other Apps

• Reads a web page or PDF as clean text

  Fetches a web page or PDF and returns it as markdown. Give it a question and it returns only the passages that answer it, which saves space in the chat.

  Try: “Read https://example.com/pricing and tell me what the Team plan costs.”

  Network · read_url

• Searches the web

  Searches the web and returns titles, links and the search engine snippets. It needs a Jina API key.

  Try: “Search the web for the latest release notes of Postgres 18.”

  Network · search_web

• Searches arXiv papers

  Searches arXiv preprints in physics, maths, computer science and quantitative biology and finance. It needs a Jina API key.

  Try: “Find recent arXiv papers about retrieval-augmented generation.”

  Network · search_arxiv

• Searches SSRN working papers

  Searches SSRN working papers in social science, economics, law, finance and management. It needs a Jina API key.

  Try: “Find SSRN papers on remote work and productivity.”

  Network · search_ssrn

• Searches the web for images

  Searches the web for images and returns them as base64 JPEGs by default, or as links if you ask. It needs a Jina API key.

  Try: “Find images of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset.”

  Network · search_images

• Searches Jina AI news and blog posts

  Searches the Jina AI news page for product announcements, model releases and technical write-ups. No API key needed.

  Try: “What has Jina announced about embeddings models lately?”

  Network · search_jina_blog

• Takes a screenshot of a web page

  Captures a page as a JPEG, either the first screen or the whole page, for when the layout matters more than the text.

  Try: “Take a screenshot of the homepage of example.com.”

  Network · capture_screenshot_url

• Guesses when a page was published or updated

  Checks a page's headers, metadata, visible dates, feeds and sitemaps to estimate its publish or update date, with a confidence score.

  Try: “When was https://example.com/blog/launch published?”

  Network · guess_datetime_url

• Gives the assistant the current time and your location

  Returns the current time, your approximate location and network details so answers about dates and places are right. No API key needed.

  Try: “What is the local time for me right now?”

  Network · primer

• Ranks a list of texts by how well they match a query

  Sends a list of documents and a query to Jina's reranker and returns them in order of relevance. It needs a Jina API key.

  Try: “Rank these five paragraphs by how well they answer: how do I reset my password?”

  Network · sort_by_relevance

• Picks the most different items from a list

  Returns the top-k items that are meaningfully different from each other, dropping near-duplicates, using Jina embeddings. It needs a Jina API key.

  Try: “From these 40 headlines, give me the 8 most distinct ones.”

  Network · deduplicate_strings

• Pulls figures, tables and equations out of a PDF

  Finds figures, tables and equations in a PDF, given an arXiv id or a PDF link, and returns them as images. It needs a Jina API key.

  Try: “Extract the tables from arXiv paper 1706.03762.”

  Network · extract_pdf

Watch out for

• URLs and text you send go to Jina

  Every page address, search query and document you pass to a tool is sent to Jina's hosted services. Leave out private pages and confidential text. github.com

• Some tools run without any key

  Reading pages and a few other tools work without an API key, at lower rate limits. Add a key if you hit limits or need search. github.com

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