This Model Context Protocol (MCP) server lets AI assistants like Claude and Cursor use the Yandex Search API for searching the web. Yandex Search
Yandex search mcp server lets Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients work with Yandex Search directly. This Model Context Protocol (MCP) server lets AI assistants like Claude and Cursor use the Yandex Search API for searching the web. Yandex Search enables LLM agents to safely and easily find up-to-date information on the internet.
This Model Context Protocol (MCP) server lets AI assistants like Claude and Cursor use the Yandex Search API for searching the web. Yandex Search enables LLM agents to safely and easily find up-to-date information on the internet.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 3 tools directly:
web_search_post — Performs a real-time web search and returns answer with sourcesPrerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverInstallation — The Installation tool exposed by this serverSetup follows the standard MCP pattern: clone or install the server, then register it in your client's configuration file and restart the client. The configuration snippets on this page cover Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.
Before the server will start you need to supply 2 environment variables: SEARCH_API_KEY, FOLDER_ID. 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. Yandex Search sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — web_search_post, Prerequisites, Installation — 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 |
|---|---|
| web_search_post | Performs a real-time web search and returns answer with sources |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Installation | The Installation tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"yandexSearch": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-remote",
"https://d5de9siimt9bkld7viic.emzafcgx.apigw.yandexcloud.net:3000/sse",
"--header", "ApiKey:<your_api_key>",
"--header", "FolderId:<your_folder_id>"
]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| SEARCH_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| FOLDER_ID | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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