A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides real-time web search capabilities through a simple API
If you want an AI assistant working directly with WebSearch MCP, the websearch mcp mcp server is the bridge. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides real-time web search capabilities through a simple API.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides a web search capability over stdio transport. This server integrates with a WebSearch Crawler API to retrieve search results.
WebSearch-MCP is a Model Context Protocol server that provides web search capabilities to AI assistants that support MCP. It allows AI models like Claude to search the web in real-time, retrieving up-to-date information about any topic.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 2 tools directly:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverParameters — The Parameters tool exposed by this serverThe 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.
Before the server will start you need to supply 3 environment variables: API_URL, MAX_SEARCH_RESULT, FLARESOLVERR_URL. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
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. WebSearch MCP sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — Prerequisites, Parameters — 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.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Parameters | The Parameters tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"websearch": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"],
"env": {
"API_URL": "your-value",
"MAX_SEARCH_RESULT": "your-value",
"FLARESOLVERR_URL": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| API_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| MAX_SEARCH_RESULT | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| FLARESOLVERR_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | 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.