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Guides and results for Siftdog, the open-source, self-hosted Tavily alternative.
Add self-hosted web search to Claude Code with MCP
Give Claude Code web search, page extraction and crawling from your own machine with Siftdog's MCP server. One command, no search API key.
How to self-host a Tavily alternative
Run your own Tavily-compatible web search API with Siftdog and Docker Compose: search, extract, crawl and map, no search API key and no per-search fees.
Siftdog vs Firecrawl vs crw: self-hosted web search for AI agents
An honest comparison of three self-hostable web search and crawling APIs for AI agents: licenses, APIs, JavaScript rendering, MCP support and when to pick each.
Use Siftdog with LangChain and the Tavily SDK
Keep your Tavily code and point it at a self-hosted Siftdog server: tavily-python (sync and async) and langchain-tavily, with one extra argument.