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Exa Personal Site Search by codealive-ai

Name: Exa Personal Site Search
Author: CodeAlive-AI

Exa Personal Site Search

Find personal websites with Exa — blogs, portfolios, and homepages. Use to find a person's own writing (not press about them), discover practitioners who blog, or surface indie/portfolio sites. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required.

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Personal Site Search (Exa)

Find personal blogs, portfolios, and homepages via Exa's personal-site index — a person's own voice rather than coverage of them. Calls the Exa REST API through a local script; no MCP server needed, only an EXA_API_KEY.

Setup (once)

export EXA_API_KEY=your-key            # or EXA_API_KEY=... in a .env at the repo root

Get a key at https://dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys. Shared details: exa-native-base.

Run it

python scripts/personal_site_search.py "<who / what they write about>" [-n N] [--text]

Examples:

python scripts/personal_site_search.py "machine learning engineer personal blog" -n 10
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "indie hacker building in public portfolio" -n 12
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "Andrej Karpathy personal site essays" -n 5

Defaults to category=personal site.

Query patterns

# Practitioners who write about a topic
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site distributed systems engineer blog" -n 12

# A specific person's own site
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site <name> blog essays projects" -n 5

# Portfolios in a discipline
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site product designer portfolio case studies" -n 12

Hidden relationships & terminology

Personal sites are ideal for finding non-obvious connections (collaborators, longtime clients, mentors) that aren't listed anywhere. Use indirect signals:

python scripts/personal_site_search.py "<subject> conversation interview testimonial guest" -n 8
python ../exa-native-base/scripts/exa.py search "<subject> years decades longtime worked with known since" -n 10

Detect insider terminology on the subject's own pages, then search for others using those terms. (See the relationships pattern in exa-lead-generation.)

Override categories with `-c`

personal site (default) · linkedin profile (their professional profile) · news (press about them).

After you get results

This index favours genuine personal sites; still treat results as similarity, not validation and open the page to confirm it's the right person.
Deep-read with python ../exa-native-base/scripts/exa.py contents <url> --text to assess voice/expertise.
Deliver: name · site URL · what they write about · a representative post.

---name: exa-personal-site-searchdescription: Find personal websites with Exa — blogs, portfolios, and homepages. Use to find a person's own writing (not press about them), discover practitioners who blog, or surface indie/portfolio sites. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required.license: MIT---# Personal Site Search (Exa)Find personal blogs, portfolios, and homepages via Exa's personal-site index — a person's *own* voice rather than coverage of them. Calls the Exa REST API through a local script; **no MCP server needed**, only an `EXA_API_KEY`.## Setup (once)```bashexport EXA_API_KEY=your-key # or EXA_API_KEY=... in a .env at the repo root```Get a key at https://dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys. Shared details: [`exa-native-base`](../exa-native-base/SKILL.md).## Run it```bashpython scripts/personal_site_search.py "<who / what they write about>" [-n N] [--text]```Examples:```bashpython scripts/personal_site_search.py "machine learning engineer personal blog" -n 10python scripts/personal_site_search.py "indie hacker building in public portfolio" -n 12python scripts/personal_site_search.py "Andrej Karpathy personal site essays" -n 5```Defaults to `category=personal site`.## Query patterns```bash# Practitioners who write about a topicpython scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site distributed systems engineer blog" -n 12# A specific person's own sitepython scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site <name> blog essays projects" -n 5# Portfolios in a disciplinepython scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site product designer portfolio case studies" -n 12```## Hidden relationships & terminologyPersonal sites are ideal for finding non-obvious connections (collaborators, longtime clients, mentors) that aren't listed anywhere. Use indirect signals:```bashpython scripts/personal_site_search.py "<subject> conversation interview testimonial guest" -n 8python ../exa-native-base/scripts/exa.py search "<subject> years decades longtime worked with known since" -n 10```Detect insider terminology on the subject's own pages, then search for others using those terms. (See the relationships pattern in `exa-lead-generation`.)## Override categories with `-c``personal site` (default) · `linkedin profile` (their professional profile) · `news` (press about them).## After you get results- This index favours genuine personal sites; still treat results as *similarity, not validation* and open the page to confirm it's the right person.- Deep-read with `python ../exa-native-base/scripts/exa.py contents <url> --text` to assess voice/expertise.- Deliver: name · site URL · what they write about · a representative post.

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