Baidu MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search capabilities through Baidu, with additional features for content fetching and parsing.

Local serverstdioPython

What is the Baidu MCP server?

Baidu mcp server lets Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients work with Baidu directly. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search capabilities through Baidu, with additional features for content fetching and parsing.

What Baidu does

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search capabilities through Baidu, with additional features for content fetching and parsing.

Key capabilities

  • Web Search — Search Baidu with advanced rate limiting and result formatting
  • Content Fetching — Retrieve and parse webpage content with intelligent text extraction
  • Rate Limiting — Built-in protection against rate limits for both search and content fetching
  • Error Handling — Comprehensive error handling and logging
  • LLM-Friendly Output — Results formatted specifically for large language model consumption

Tools it exposes

Once connected, the assistant can call this tool directly:

  • Development — The Development tool exposed by this server

Installing the baidu mcp server

The server is distributed via npm as @smithery/cli, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.

Where it fits

Search and scraping servers exist to fix the single most common failure of any assistant: answering from stale training data instead of what is on the web today. Baidu sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — Development — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other search web scraping servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.

Practical notes

  • This server runs locally, so it operates with whatever access your machine and its credentials already have. Scope that deliberately rather than by default.
  • Maintained by Evilran, written in Python.
  • MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the baidu mcp server actually does with your data.
  • Every entry in this directory is reviewed by hand before it goes live, and details are checked against the project's own documentation.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
DevelopmentThe Development tool exposed by this server.

How to install the Baidu MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "baidu": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"]
    }
  }
}

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Baidu to Development.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Baidu to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 1 tool (Development) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Baidu directly.