ExaFlow: Advanced Semantic Search & AI Integration

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What is ExaFlow?

Semantic search toolkit for AI applications. Built with TypeScript, ExaFlow combines Exa's neural search with intelligent caching, real-time streaming, and MCP integration.

Perfect for:

• 🤖 AI applications with enhanced search
• 🔬 Research automation & multi-step pipelines
• 📰 Content analysis with live crawling
• 🛠️ Developer tools & CLI workflows
• 🏢 Enterprise search with advanced filtering

Installation

Using Bun (Recommended)

bun install -g exaflow

Using npm

npm install -g exaflow

Verify

exaflow --version

Setup

Create a .env file with your Exa API key:

EXA_API_KEY=your_exa_api_key_here

Usage

📚 Context API

Get code & technical content with token limits.

exaflow context "React hooks patterns" --tokens 3000
exaflow context "TypeScript patterns" --tokens 5000

🔍 Search API

Semantic search with neural ranking.

exaflow search "machine learning trends 2024" --type neural --num-results 20
exaflow search "AI research papers" --type neural --include-contents

📄 Contents API

Extract content from URLs with live crawling.

exaflow contents --ids urls.txt --livecrawl always --subpages 5
exaflow contents --stdin --subpage-target "about,news"

🌐 Websets API

Async search with enrichment & polling.

WEBSET_ID=$(exaflow websets create --output json | jq -r '.data.webset.id')
exaflow websets search --webset-id $WEBSET_ID --search-query "AI research"
exaflow websets poll --webset-id $WEBSET_ID

🔬 Research API

Multi-step research with structured output.

exaflow research --instructions "Analyze latest AI trends" --poll
exaflow research --instructions-file prompt.md --schema output-schema.json

🤖 MCP Server

Integrate with AI applications.

exaflow mcp-server
exaflow mcp-server --transport http --port 3000
exaflow-mcp  # Global binary

Options

-c, --concurrency <number>    # Parallel operations (1-20, default: 5)
-t, --timeout <number>        # Request timeout in ms (default: 30000)
--compact                     # Compact JSON output
--silent                      # Suppress event streaming
--output <format>             # Output format: json|text (default: json)

Architecture

src/
├── clients/           # Exa API clients
│   ├── base-client.ts
│   ├── exa-context.ts
│   ├── exa-search.ts
│   ├── exa-contents.ts
│   ├── exa-websets.ts
│   └── exa-research.ts
├── util/              # Utilities
│   ├── concurrency.ts
│   ├── http.ts
│   ├── http-cache.ts
│   ├── streaming.ts
│   └── fs.ts
├── cli.ts
├── mcp-server.ts
└── schema.ts

Response Format

All commands return structured JSON with status, timing, citations, and data:

{
  "status": "success|partial|error",
  "taskId": "unique-task-id",
  "timing": {
    "startedAt": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "completedAt": "2024-01-01T00:01:00Z",
    "duration": 60000
  },
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com",
      "title": "Article Title",
      "snippet": "Relevant excerpt...",
      "author": "Author Name",
      "publishedDate": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "data": {}
}

Development

bun install           # Install dependencies
bun run build         # Build project
bun run dev           # CLI development
bun run dev:mcp       # MCP server development

Performance

• ⚡ 885,371 requests/second - Search throughput
• 💾 85% cache hit rate - 40% API call reduction
• 🪶 <1MB footprint - Minimal memory overhead
• 🔄 1-20 parallel ops - Configurable concurrency

Security

• ✅ Comprehensive input validation
• 🔐 Secure API key handling
• 🔁 Exponential backoff with jitter
• 🛡️ Graceful degradation on failures
• ⏱️ Per-request timeout controls

License

MIT © 2026 - See LICENSE for details.

Links

• 🐛 Issues
• 💬 Discussions
• 📦 npm

Built With

• Exa - Neural search API
• Bun - JavaScript runtime
• MCP - AI integration
• TypeScript - Type safety