Serper MCP Server supporting search and webpage scraping
Serper MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Serper directly instead of describing what you should do. Serper MCP Server supporting search and webpage scraping.
A TypeScript-based MCP server that provides web search and webpage scraping capabilities using the Serper API. This server integrates with Claude Desktop to enable powerful web search and content extraction features.
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at @smithery/cli 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.
Once Serper is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
google_search — Perform web searches via Serper APIsite — Limit results to specific domainfiletype — Limit to specific file types (e.g., 'pdf', 'doc')inurl — Search for pages with word in URLintitle — Search for pages with word in titlerelated — Find similar websitescache — View Google's cached version of a specific URLbefore — Date before in YYYY-MM-DD formatafter — Date after in YYYY-MM-DD formatexact — Exact phrase matchexclude — Terms to exclude from search resultsscrape — Extract content from web pagesYou will need one environment variable: SERPER_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
SERPER_API_KEY environment variable)Among the search and retrieval 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. Serper's toolset — google_search, site, filetype and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by tahaswx; 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 |
|---|---|
| google_search | Perform web searches via Serper API |
| site | Limit results to specific domain |
| filetype | Limit to specific file types (e.g., 'pdf', 'doc') |
| inurl | Search for pages with word in URL |
| intitle | Search for pages with word in title |
| related | Find similar websites |
| cache | View Google's cached version of a specific URL |
| before | Date before in YYYY-MM-DD format |
| after | Date after in YYYY-MM-DD format |
| exact | Exact phrase match |
| exclude | Terms to exclude from search results |
| scrape | Extract content from web pages |
| Tools | The Tools tool exposed by this server. |
| Debugging | Since MCP servers communicate over stdio, debugging can be challenging. We recommend using the [MCP Inspector](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector), which is available as a package script: |
{
"mcpServers": {
"server-serper": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"],
"env": {
"SERPER_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
SERPER_API_KEY environment variable)| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| SERPER_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.