An MCP server providing websearch using openrouter :online
Connect OpenRouter Web Search to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. An MCP server providing websearch using openrouter :online. The openrouter web search mcp server is what makes that connection.
This project implements an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides a search_web tool. The tool performs a web search using OpenRouter's online models to generate concise, up-to-date answers.
Configuration is passed through the environment: OPENROUTER_API_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Plenty of search and retrieval servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. It is maintained by ChristianSch; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
## Usage
Run the server:
```bash
{
"mcpServers": {
"web-search": {
"command": "openrouter-websearch-mcp",
"env": {
"OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "sk-or-v1-..."
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| OPENROUTER_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
The simplest web tool that matters — fetch any URL and get model-ready markdown back.
Industrial-strength web extraction — render, scrape, crawl and search entire sites into clean markdown.
Puppeteer-powered browser control that drives pages from the accessibility tree instead of pixels.
Search built for AI, not humans — semantic web search that returns model-ready content, plus code context.
Answers, not links — delegate questions to Perplexity's search-grounded models and get cited responses back.
Put 6,000+ pre-built scrapers at your assistant's fingertips through one MCP endpoint.