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Read web pages, search the web and embed or rerank text with Jina APIs.

Auth
keyless
Health
up probed
Vendor
jina.ai
Categories
search, scraping

Endpoint

https://mcp.jina.ai/v1 (streamable-http)

Authentication

Keyless: the server answers without a credential.

From an agent (picker mode): call_tool with server=jina

Tools (12)

Name Title Description
capture_screenshot_url – Screenshot a page as base64 JPEG. Use when the page must be seen rather than read.
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "url"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri"
    },
    "return_url": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false,
      "description": "Return URLs instead of base64 images."
    },
    "firstScreenOnly": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false,
      "description": "Capture only the first screen instead of the full page. Faster."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
deduplicate_strings – Select the top-k semantically distinct strings from a list, dropping near-duplicates.
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "strings"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "k": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "How many to keep. Omit to pick k automatically from diminishing returns."
    },
    "strings": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "maxItems": 1000,
      "minItems": 1,
      "description": "Strings to deduplicate, up to 1000."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
extract_pdf – Extract figures, tables and equations from a PDF as images, by arXiv id or URL.
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "arXiv id, e.g. '2301.12345'. Give id or url."
    },
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "PDF URL. Give id or url."
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Comma-separated types to keep: figure, table, equation. Default all."
    },
    "max_edge": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 1024,
      "description": "Longest image edge in pixels, default 1024."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
guess_datetime_url – Guess when a page was published or last updated, with a confidence score. Checks HTTP headers, metadata, Schema.org, visible dates, feeds and sitemaps.
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "url"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
primer – Current time, user location and network environment for the session. Use before answering anything time- or location-dependent.
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {}
}
read_url – Fetch a URL (page or PDF) as clean markdown. Pass `question` to get only the passages answering it instead of the whole page - far cheaper than reading the f...
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "url"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "ocr": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Read the rendered page as an image with jina-ocr-v1 instead of its HTML. Use for scanned documents and PDFs whose text is not in the markup, and to keep formulas and table structure. Parses ONE page per call, page 1 unless `page` says otherwise, and costs about 40x the tokens per page, so leave off unless the HTML path has failed you."
    },
    "url": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uri"
        },
        {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string",
            "format": "uri"
          },
          "maxItems": 5,
          "minItems": 1
        }
      ],
      "description": "Page or PDF URL, or up to 5 URLs to read in parallel."
    },
    "page": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Which page the OCR pass should parse, 1-based. Needs `ocr`; the HTML path returns the whole document at once."
    },
    "topk": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Passages to return, default 1. Needs `question`."
    },
    "question": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Return only the passages answering this question, instead of the full body. Omit for the whole page."
    },
    "chunk_size": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 4096,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Passage size in words, default 100. Larger gives more surrounding context, smaller pinpoints the answer. Comparable across scripts. Needs `question`."
    },
    "withAllLinks": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Also return every link on the page."
    },
    "withAllImages": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Also return every image on the page."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
search_arxiv – Search arXiv preprints (physics, maths, CS, quantitative biology and finance).
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "num": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 10,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "tbs": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Age limit: qdr:h, qdr:d, qdr:w, qdr:m, qdr:y (hour to year)."
    },
    "query": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "maxItems": 5,
          "minItems": 1
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
search_images – Search the web for images. Returns base64 JPEGs by default.
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "gl": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Country code, e.g. 'de'."
    },
    "hl": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Language code, e.g. 'zh-cn'."
    },
    "num": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 10,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "tbs": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Age limit: qdr:h, qdr:d, qdr:w, qdr:m, qdr:y (hour to year)."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "location": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "return_url": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false,
      "description": "Return URLs and metadata instead of base64 images."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
search_jina_blog – Search Jina AI's news and blog at jina.ai/news: product announcements, model releases, technical write-ups.
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "num": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 30,
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "tbs": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Age limit: qdr:h, qdr:d, qdr:w, qdr:m, qdr:y (hour to year)."
    },
    "query": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "maxItems": 5,
          "minItems": 1
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
search_ssrn – Search SSRN working papers (social science, economics, law, finance, management).
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "num": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 10,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "tbs": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Age limit: qdr:h, qdr:d, qdr:w, qdr:m, qdr:y (hour to year)."
    },
    "query": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "maxItems": 5,
          "minItems": 1
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
search_web – Search the web. Returns titles, URLs and search-engine snippets.
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "gl": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Country code, e.g. 'de'."
    },
    "hl": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Language code, e.g. 'zh-cn'."
    },
    "num": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 10,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "tbs": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Age limit: qdr:h, qdr:d, qdr:w, qdr:m, qdr:y (hour to year)."
    },
    "query": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "maxItems": 5,
          "minItems": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    "location": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
sort_by_relevance – Rerank documents by relevance to a query, using Jina Reranker.
Input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "query",
    "documents"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "top_n": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "documents": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "maxItems": 1024,
      "minItems": 1,
      "description": "Documents to rank, up to 1024."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Calls, last 30 days

2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05 · 0 calls

No relayed calls in the last 30 days.

Probes

Last 6, newest at the top. Probes carry no credential.
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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pick": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pick.tools/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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