days
(number, optional): For topic: "news", the number of days back from the current date to include search results.
How to use it
days is exposed by the Deep Research MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the days tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
Install Deep Research MCP
npx -y @smithery/cli install @pinkpixel/dev-deep-research-mcp --client claudeOther tools in Deep Research MCP (28)
(number, optional, default: 3): For searchdepth: "advanced", the number of content chunks to retrieve from each source (1-3).
(boolean, optional, default: false): Whether to allow the crawler to follow links to external domains.
(array of strings, optional, default: []): Filter URLs for crawling using predefined categories (e.g., "Blog", "Documentation", "Careers"). Refer to Tavily Crawl API for all options.
(array of strings, optional, default: []): Regex patterns to exclude specific domains or subdomains from crawling.
(array of strings, optional, default: []): Regex patterns to exclude URLs with specific path patterns from crawling.
(string, optional, default: "advanced"): Depth of content extraction during crawl.
(boolean, optional, default: true): Whether to extract image URLs from the crawled pages.
(string, optional): Natural language instructions for the crawler for how to approach crawling the site.
(number, optional, default: 10): Total number of links the crawler will process starting from a single root URL before stopping.
(number, optional, default: 5): Max number of links to follow per level of the crawl tree (i.e., per page).
(number, optional, default: 1): Max depth of the crawl from the base URL. 0 means only the base URL, 1 means the base URL and links found on it, etc.
(array of strings, optional, default: []): Regex patterns to restrict crawling to specific domains or subdomains (e.g., "^docs\\.example\\.com$"). If crawlallowexternal is false (default) and this is empty, crawling is focused on the domain of the URL being crawled. This overrides that focus.
(array of strings, optional, default: []): Regex patterns to select only URLs with specific path patterns for crawling (e.g., "/docs/.").
(number, optional, default: 180): Timeout in seconds for each Tavily Crawl request.
(string, optional): Custom prompt for LLM documentation generation.
(array of strings, optional, default: []): A list of domains to specifically exclude from the search results.
(boolean or string, optional, default: false): Include an LLM-generated answer from Tavily based on search results.
(array of strings, optional, default: []): A list of domains to specifically include in the search results.
(boolean, optional, default: false): Include the cleaned and parsed HTML content of each initial search result.
(boolean, optional, default: false): Include image descriptions along with URLs from the initial search.
(boolean, optional, default: false): Include a list of query-related image URLs from the initial search.
(number, optional, default: 7): Maximum number of search results to retrieve and consider for crawling (1-20).
(string, optional): Path where generated research documents and images should be saved.
(string, required): The main research topic or question.
(string, optional, default: "advanced"): Depth of the initial Tavily search.
(number, optional, default: 60): Timeout in seconds for Tavily search requests.
(string, optional): Time range for search results (e.g., "d" for day, "w" for week, "m" for month, "y" for year).
(string, optional, default: "general"): Category for the Tavily search.