octen-mcp

Our take

An API-key client for the Octen search-and-extract service: search, news_search, and a broad_search that fans a query out into concurrent sub-queries, plus an extract tool that turns up to 20 URLs into LLM-ready markdown annotated with category, page_structure, and query-ranked highlights — the page_structure label ('No Main Content' for login walls and empty shells) is a genuinely useful pre-filter that lets agents discard junk URLs before spending context. Two beta tools (image_search, video_search) are gated behind contacting the company, and headline claims like 62ms average search and 'SOTA embedding models' are the vendor's own numbers, unverifiable from outside. It is a thin TypeScript stdio shim over a commercial API — no key, no function — from a young org (created January 2026, 12 stars, 3 contributors, ~416 weekly downloads) that ships actively and documents client setup thoroughly. The registry has it filed under files, which is wrong: this is a live web search and extraction service, and search is where it belongs. For research-agent builders comparing Tavily/Exa-class search APIs who want structural page labels, not just clean text.

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Verification record

last verified

yesterday

github stars

12

last commit

7 days ago

archived

no

license

MIT

npm

octen-mcp

downloads / wk

416

latest version

0.3.0

in registry since

2026-05-20

github.com/Octen-Team/octen-mcp