Google Search Engine MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server based on Cloudflare Workers, providing Google search and webpage content extraction functionality with

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What is the Google Search Engine MCP MCP server?

Google Search Engine MCP becomes available to MCP clients through the google search engine mcp mcp server. An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server based on Cloudflare Workers, providing Google search and webpage content extraction functionality with integrated OAuth login.

What Google Search Engine MCP does

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server based on Cloudflare Workers, providing Google search and webpage content extraction functionality with integrated OAuth login.

Installing the google search engine mcp mcp server

The server is distributed via npm as @modelcontextprotocol/inspector, 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.

Configuration

Before the server will start you need to supply 2 environment variables: GOOGLE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_SEARCH_ENGINE_ID. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.

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. Google Search Engine MCP sits in that group. 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.
  • It will not start until its required credentials are present, so set those before wondering why the tools never appear.
  • Maintained by Eivs, written in TypeScript.
  • MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the google search engine mcp 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.

How to install the Google Search Engine MCP MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-search-engine": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/inspector"],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "GOOGLE_SEARCH_ENGINE_ID": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
GOOGLE_API_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
GOOGLE_SEARCH_ENGINE_IDConfiguration value read at startup.Optional

Frequently asked questions

It connects Google Search Engine MCP to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Google Search Engine MCP directly.