A production-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing comprehensive search capabilities through SearchAPI.io. Enable AI assistants to
If you already use SearchAPI MCP, the searchapi mcp mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. A production-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing comprehensive search capabilities through SearchAPI.io. Enable AI assistants to search Google, Maps, Flights, Hotels, and more with built-in caching, retry logic, and circuit.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverhealth_check — The health_check tool exposed by this serverget_current_time — Get current time and travel date suggestions. Essential for flight and hotel bookingssearch_google — Search Google for web results, knowledge graphs, and answer boxessearch_google_videos — The search_google_videos tool exposed by this serversearch_google_ai_mode — The search_google_ai_mode tool exposed by this serversearch_google_maps — The search_google_maps tool exposed by this serversearch_google_maps_place — The search_google_maps_place tool exposed by this serversearch_google_maps_reviews — The search_google_maps_reviews tool exposed by this serversearch_google_events — The search_google_events tool exposed by this serversearch_google_flights — The search_google_flights tool exposed by this serversearch_google_flights_calendar — The search_google_flights_calendar tool exposed by this serverInstallation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at @modelcontextprotocol/inspector on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Configuration is passed through the environment: SEARCHAPI_API_KEY, PYTHONIOENCODING, SEARCHAPI_API_URL. 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.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. SearchAPI MCP's toolset — Prerequisites, health_check, get_current_time and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by RmMargt; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| health_check | The health_check tool exposed by this server. |
| get_current_time | Get current time and travel date suggestions. Essential for flight and hotel bookings. |
| search_google | Search Google for web results, knowledge graphs, and answer boxes. |
| search_google_videos | The search_google_videos tool exposed by this server. |
| search_google_ai_mode | The search_google_ai_mode tool exposed by this server. |
| search_google_maps | The search_google_maps tool exposed by this server. |
| search_google_maps_place | The search_google_maps_place tool exposed by this server. |
| search_google_maps_reviews | The search_google_maps_reviews tool exposed by this server. |
| search_google_events | The search_google_events tool exposed by this server. |
| search_google_flights | The search_google_flights tool exposed by this server. |
| search_google_flights_calendar | The search_google_flights_calendar tool exposed by this server. |
| search_google_flights_location_search | The search_google_flights_location_search tool exposed by this server. |
| search_google_travel_explore | The search_google_travel_explore tool exposed by this server. |
**Using Python directly:**
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"searchapi": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"/absolute/path/to/searchAPI-mcp/mcp_server_refactored.py"
],
"env": {
"SEARCHAPI_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| SEARCHAPI_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| PYTHONIOENCODING | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| SEARCHAPI_API_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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