# BochaAI
## 基本信息
- Slug: `bochaai-bocha-search-mcp`
- Source: modelscope
- Publisher: @BochaAI/bocha-search-mcp
- Categories: search / rag-systems / knowledge-and-memory
- Hosted: No
- License: Unknown
- Source URL: https://www.modelscope.cn/mcp/servers/@BochaAI/bocha-search-mcp
## 简介
暂无描述。
## MCP Server 详情

# MCP Server Product Name: Bocha

![Bocha Search MCP Server](assets/bocha-logo-720x180.png)

## Version Information
v1

## Product Description
### Short Description
Bocha is a search engine for AI, enabling your AI applications to access high-quality world knowledge from nearly 10 billion web pages and content sources, covering various fields such as weather, news, encyclopedia, healthcare, train tickets, and images.

### Long Description
Bocha is a search engine for AI, enabling your AI applications to access high-quality world knowledge from nearly 10 billion web pages and content sources, covering various fields such as weather, news, encyclopedia, healthcare, train tickets, and images.

## Category
Web Search

## Tags
Search, News, Weather, Encyclopedia

## Tools
### Tool1: Bocha Web Search
#### Detailed Description
Search the entire web and web links via Bocha, returning results that include web page titles, URLs, summaries, website names, website icons, publication dates, and image links.

#### Parameters Required for Debugging
Input:
  - query: Search term (required)
  - freshness: Search within a specified time range (optional values YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM-DD..YYYY-MM-DD, noLimit, oneYear, oneMonth, oneWeek, oneDay. Default is noLimit)
  - count: Number of results to return (1-50, default is 10)

Output:
  - Web page title, URL, summary, publication date, website name

### Tool2: Bocha AI Search
#### Detailed Description
Building on Bocha's web search, AI identifies the semantics of the search terms and additionally returns structured modal cards for specific verticals, such as weather cards, calendar cards, and encyclopedia cards, among dozens of others. This provides better performance in semantic recognition, timeliness of search results, and richness of content.

#### Parameters Required for Debugging
Input:
  - query: Search term (required)
  - freshness: Search within a specified time range (optional values YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM-DD..YYYY-MM-DD, noLimit, oneYear, oneMonth, oneWeek, oneDay. Default is noLimit)
  - count: Number of results to return (1-50, default is 10)

Output:
  - Web page title, URL, summary, publication date, website name, modal card

## Compatible Platforms
Ark, Python, Claude, Cursor, etc.

## Service Activation Link
You need to visit the [Bocha AI Open Platform](https://open.bochaai.com), log in, and obtain an API KEY.

## Authentication Method
API Key

## Installation and Deployment
### Step 1: Download the Code to Your Local Machine
bash
git clone git@github.com:BochaAI/bocha-search-mcp.git


### Step 2: Configure in the Client
#### Claude Desktop
On MacOS: `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`

On Windows: `%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`

json
  "mcpServers": {
    "bocha-search-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/path/to/bocha-search-mcp",
        "run",
        "bocha-search-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BOCHA_API_KEY": "sk-****"
      }
    }
  }
  

### Step 3: Use in the Client
![Example: alibaba 2024 esg report](assets/alibaba-2024-esg-report.png)

### Step 4: Debug the Local Service (Optional)
bash
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /path/to/bocha-search-mcp run bocha-search-mcp


## Customer Cases

Bocha has served over **3,000 enterprise users** and **20,000 developer users**, becoming the **official networked search provider for DeepSeek** and the **recommended search API by Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance**. Currently, it handles **over 60% of the networked search requests for AI applications in China**.

The content sources for Bocha's search include nearly 10 billion web pages and ecosystem partner content (including short videos, news, encyclopedias, weather, healthcare, train tickets, hotels, restaurants, attractions, businesses, and academic resources). Bocha will continue to collaborate with various platforms on content ecosystems and intelligent agent creation, providing rich and diverse answers to search queries for its users.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What capabilities does the Bocha Web Search API service provide?Bocha Web Search provides a universal web search capability. You can use Bocha to search for information and web page links across the entire web, with the returned results including web page titles, web URLs, web page summaries, website names, website icons, publication times, image links, etc. Each search result can return up to 50 web pages (count50).

Traditional search engines use a keyword + bid ranking mechanism in their search algorithms. The goal of the search results is not to directly provide the correct answers to users but to attract user clicks to generate advertising revenue.

Bocha is a next-generation search engine based on multimodal hybrid search and semantic ranking technology. It supports natural language search methods for AI application scenarios, and the objective of the search results is to provide clean, accurate, and high-quality answers.

Bocha's semantic ranking technology is based on the Transformer architecture, which ranks search results according to their semantic relevance to the user's query. Since large models also use the Transformer architecture and make decisions based on the semantic relevance between context and user queries, these large models tend to prefer the search results provided by Bocha.

Currently, Bocha's search performance is the closest to that of the Bing Search API among domestic search engines. Because the Bing Search API data is hosted overseas (no domestic region), is expensive (15 USD per thousand requests), and does not provide text summaries (only 50-100 character snippets), many domestic enterprise customers have switched from Bing to Bocha.

### What capabilities can the Bocha AI Search API service provide?
Bocha AI Search, built on top of Bocha Web Search, uses AI to recognize the semantics of search terms and returns additional structured mo…