exa-personal-site

Search personal websites and blogs using Exa. Finds individual perspectives, portfolios, tutorials, and personal blogs. Use when searching for personal sites, blog posts, practitioner deep-dives, or portfolio websites.

Personal Site Search (Exa)

Tool

Use exec to call: mcporter call exa-search.web_search_advanced_exa category=personal\ site <params>

Always include category=personal\ site.

Full Filter Support

Unlike company or tweet categories, personal site supports ALL parameters:

  • Domain: includeDomains, excludeDomains
  • Date: startPublishedDate, endPublishedDate, startCrawlDate, endCrawlDate
  • Text: includeText, excludeText (single-item only — multi-item causes 400 error)
  • Content: enableSummary, enableHighlights, subpages, subpageTarget

Call Syntax

# Technical blog posts
mcporter call exa-search.web_search_advanced_exa \
  query="building production LLM applications lessons learned" \
  category="personal site" \
  numResults=15 \
  type=deep \
  enableSummary=true

# Recent posts only
mcporter call exa-search.web_search_advanced_exa \
  query="Rust async runtime comparison" \
  category="personal site" \
  startPublishedDate=2025-01-01 \
  numResults=10 \
  type=auto

# Exclude aggregators, find independent blogs
mcporter call exa-search.web_search_advanced_exa \
  query="startup founder lessons" \
  category="personal site" \
  excludeDomains='["medium.com","substack.com"]' \
  numResults=15 \
  type=auto

# Portfolio sites with subpages
mcporter call exa-search.web_search_advanced_exa \
  query="AI engineer portfolio projects" \
  category="personal site" \
  numResults=10 \
  subpages=2 \
  subpageTarget=projects

When to Use

  • Individual expert opinions and experiences
  • Personal blog posts on technical topics
  • Portfolio websites
  • Independent analysis (not corporate content)
  • Deep-dives and tutorials from practitioners

Output Format

Return:

  1. Results — title, author/site name, date, key insights
  2. Sources — URLs
  3. Notes — author expertise, potential biases, depth of coverage