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OpenAI WebSearch MCP Server

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Enables AI assistants to perform real-time web searches during user conversations, providing accurate and contextually relevant information directly within the interaction.

Instructions

It allows AI assistants to search the web during conversations with users

Input Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
inputYes
modelNogpt-4o-mini
search_context_sizeNomedium
typeNoweb_search_preview
user_locationNo

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

{ "$defs": { "UserLocation": { "properties": { "city": { "title": "City", "type": "string" }, "country": { "default": null, "title": "Country", "type": "string" }, "region": { "default": null, "title": "Region", "type": "string" }, "timezone": { "enum": [ "Africa/Abidjan", "Africa/Accra", "Africa/Addis_Ababa", "Africa/Algiers", "Africa/Asmara", "Africa/Asmera", "Africa/Bamako", "Africa/Bangui", "Africa/Banjul", "Africa/Bissau", "Africa/Blantyre", "Africa/Brazzaville", "Africa/Bujumbura", "Africa/Cairo", "Africa/Casablanca", "Africa/Ceuta", "Africa/Conakry", "Africa/Dakar", "Africa/Dar_es_Salaam", "Africa/Djibouti", "Africa/Douala", "Africa/El_Aaiun", "Africa/Freetown", "Africa/Gaborone", "Africa/Harare", "Africa/Johannesburg", "Africa/Juba", "Africa/Kampala", "Africa/Khartoum", "Africa/Kigali", "Africa/Kinshasa", "Africa/Lagos", "Africa/Libreville", "Africa/Lome", "Africa/Luanda", "Africa/Lubumbashi", "Africa/Lusaka", "Africa/Malabo", "Africa/Maputo", "Africa/Maseru", "Africa/Mbabane", "Africa/Mogadishu", "Africa/Monrovia", "Africa/Nairobi", "Africa/Ndjamena", "Africa/Niamey", "Africa/Nouakchott", "Africa/Ouagadougou", "Africa/Porto-Novo", "Africa/Sao_Tome", "Africa/Timbuktu", "Africa/Tripoli", "Africa/Tunis", "Africa/Windhoek", "America/Adak", "America/Anchorage", "America/Anguilla", "America/Antigua", "America/Araguaina", "America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires", "America/Argentina/Catamarca", "America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia", "America/Argentina/Cordoba", "America/Argentina/Jujuy", "America/Argentina/La_Rioja", "America/Argentina/Mendoza", "America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos", "America/Argentina/Salta", "America/Argentina/San_Juan", "America/Argentina/San_Luis", "America/Argentina/Tucuman", "America/Argentina/Ushuaia", "America/Aruba", "America/Asuncion", "America/Atikokan", "America/Atka", "America/Bahia", "America/Bahia_Banderas", "America/Barbados", "America/Belem", "America/Belize", "America/Blanc-Sablon", "America/Boa_Vista", "America/Bogota", "America/Boise", "America/Buenos_Aires", "America/Cambridge_Bay", "America/Campo_Grande", "America/Cancun", "America/Caracas", "America/Catamarca", "America/Cayenne", "America/Cayman", "America/Chicago", "America/Chihuahua", "America/Ciudad_Juarez", "America/Coral_Harbour", "America/Cordoba", "America/Costa_Rica", "America/Coyhaique", "America/Creston", "America/Cuiaba", "America/Curacao", "America/Danmarkshavn", "America/Dawson", "America/Dawson_Creek", "America/Denver", "America/Detroit", "America/Dominica", "America/Edmonton", "America/Eirunepe", "America/El_Salvador", "America/Ensenada", "America/Fort_Nelson", "America/Fort_Wayne", "America/Fortaleza", "America/Glace_Bay", "America/Godthab", "America/Goose_Bay", "America/Grand_Turk", "America/Grenada", "America/Guadeloupe", "America/Guatemala", "America/Guayaquil", "America/Guyana", "America/Halifax", "America/Havana", "America/Hermosillo", "America/Indiana/Indianapolis", "America/Indiana/Knox", "America/Indiana/Marengo", "America/Indiana/Petersburg", "America/Indiana/Tell_City", "America/Indiana/Vevay", "America/Indiana/Vincennes", "America/Indiana/Winamac", "America/Indianapolis", "America/Inuvik", "America/Iqaluit", "America/Jamaica", "America/Jujuy", "America/Juneau", "America/Kentucky/Louisville", "America/Kentucky/Monticello", "America/Knox_IN", "America/Kralendijk", "America/La_Paz", "America/Lima", "America/Los_Angeles", "America/Louisville", "America/Lower_Princes", "America/Maceio", "America/Managua", "America/Manaus", "America/Marigot", "America/Martinique", "America/Matamoros", "America/Mazatlan", "America/Mendoza", "America/Menominee", "America/Merida", "America/Metlakatla", "America/Mexico_City", "America/Miquelon", "America/Moncton", "America/Monterrey", "America/Montevideo", "America/Montreal", "America/Montserrat", "America/Nassau", "America/New_York", "America/Nipigon", "America/Nome", "America/Noronha", "America/North_Dakota/Beulah", "America/North_Dakota/Center", "America/North_Dakota/New_Salem", "America/Nuuk", "America/Ojinaga", "America/Panama", "America/Pangnirtung", "America/Paramaribo", "America/Phoenix", "America/Port-au-Prince", "America/Port_of_Spain", "America/Porto_Acre", "America/Porto_Velho", "America/Puerto_Rico", "America/Punta_Arenas", "America/Rainy_River", "America/Rankin_Inlet", "America/Recife", "America/Regina", "America/Resolute", "America/Rio_Branco", "America/Rosario", "America/Santa_Isabel", "America/Santarem", "America/Santiago", "America/Santo_Domingo", "America/Sao_Paulo", "America/Scoresbysund", "America/Shiprock", "America/Sitka", "America/St_Barthelemy", "America/St_Johns", "America/St_Kitts", "America/St_Lucia", "America/St_Thomas", "America/St_Vincent", "America/Swift_Current", "America/Tegucigalpa", "America/Thule", "America/Thunder_Bay", "America/Tijuana", "America/Toronto", "America/Tortola", "America/Vancouver", "America/Virgin", "America/Whitehorse", "America/Winnipeg", "America/Yakutat", "America/Yellowknife", "Antarctica/Casey", "Antarctica/Davis", "Antarctica/DumontDUrville", "Antarctica/Macquarie", "Antarctica/Mawson", "Antarctica/McMurdo", "Antarctica/Palmer", "Antarctica/Rothera", "Antarctica/South_Pole", "Antarctica/Syowa", "Antarctica/Troll", "Antarctica/Vostok", "Arctic/Longyearbyen", "Asia/Aden", "Asia/Almaty", "Asia/Amman", "Asia/Anadyr", "Asia/Aqtau", "Asia/Aqtobe", "Asia/Ashgabat", "Asia/Ashkhabad", "Asia/Atyrau", "Asia/Baghdad", "Asia/Bahrain", "Asia/Baku", "Asia/Bangkok", "Asia/Barnaul", "Asia/Beirut", "Asia/Bishkek", "Asia/Brunei", "Asia/Calcutta", "Asia/Chita", "Asia/Choibalsan", "Asia/Chongqing", "Asia/Chungking", "Asia/Colombo", "Asia/Dacca", "Asia/Damascus", "Asia/Dhaka", "Asia/Dili", "Asia/Dubai", "Asia/Dushanbe", "Asia/Famagusta", "Asia/Gaza", "Asia/Harbin", "Asia/Hebron", "Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh", "Asia/Hong_Kong", "Asia/Hovd", "Asia/Irkutsk", "Asia/Istanbul", "Asia/Jakarta", "Asia/Jayapura", "Asia/Jerusalem", "Asia/Kabul", "Asia/Kamchatka", "Asia/Karachi", "Asia/Kashgar", "Asia/Kathmandu", "Asia/Katmandu", "Asia/Khandyga", "Asia/Kolkata", "Asia/Krasnoyarsk", "Asia/Kuala_Lumpur", "Asia/Kuching", "Asia/Kuwait", "Asia/Macao", "Asia/Macau", "Asia/Magadan", "Asia/Makassar", "Asia/Manila", "Asia/Muscat", "Asia/Nicosia", "Asia/Novokuznetsk", "Asia/Novosibirsk", "Asia/Omsk", "Asia/Oral", "Asia/Phnom_Penh", "Asia/Pontianak", "Asia/Pyongyang", "Asia/Qatar", "Asia/Qostanay", "Asia/Qyzylorda", "Asia/Rangoon", "Asia/Riyadh", "Asia/Saigon", "Asia/Sakhalin", "Asia/Samarkand", "Asia/Seoul", "Asia/Shanghai", "Asia/Singapore", "Asia/Srednekolymsk", "Asia/Taipei", "Asia/Tashkent", "Asia/Tbilisi", "Asia/Tehran", "Asia/Tel_Aviv", "Asia/Thimbu", "Asia/Thimphu", "Asia/Tokyo", "Asia/Tomsk", "Asia/Ujung_Pandang", "Asia/Ulaanbaatar", "Asia/Ulan_Bator", "Asia/Urumqi", "Asia/Ust-Nera", "Asia/Vientiane", "Asia/Vladivostok", "Asia/Yakutsk", "Asia/Yangon", "Asia/Yekaterinburg", "Asia/Yerevan", "Atlantic/Azores", "Atlantic/Bermuda", "Atlantic/Canary", "Atlantic/Cape_Verde", "Atlantic/Faeroe", "Atlantic/Faroe", "Atlantic/Jan_Mayen", "Atlantic/Madeira", "Atlantic/Reykjavik", "Atlantic/South_Georgia", "Atlantic/St_Helena", "Atlantic/Stanley", "Australia/ACT", "Australia/Adelaide", "Australia/Brisbane", "Australia/Broken_Hill", "Australia/Canberra", "Australia/Currie", "Australia/Darwin", "Australia/Eucla", "Australia/Hobart", "Australia/LHI", "Australia/Lindeman", "Australia/Lord_Howe", "Australia/Melbourne", "Australia/NSW", "Australia/North", "Australia/Perth", "Australia/Queensland", "Australia/South", "Australia/Sydney", "Australia/Tasmania", "Australia/Victoria", "Australia/West", "Australia/Yancowinna", "Brazil/Acre", "Brazil/DeNoronha", "Brazil/East", "Brazil/West", "CET", "CST6CDT", "Canada/Atlantic", "Canada/Central", "Canada/Eastern", "Canada/Mountain", "Canada/Newfoundland", "Canada/Pacific", "Canada/Saskatchewan", "Canada/Yukon", "Chile/Continental", "Chile/EasterIsland", "Cuba", "EET", "EST", "EST5EDT", "Egypt", "Eire", "Etc/GMT", "Etc/GMT+0", "Etc/GMT+1", "Etc/GMT+10", "Etc/GMT+11", "Etc/GMT+12", "Etc/GMT+2", "Etc/GMT+3", "Etc/GMT+4", "Etc/GMT+5", "Etc/GMT+6", "Etc/GMT+7", "Etc/GMT+8", "Etc/GMT+9", "Etc/GMT-0", "Etc/GMT-1", "Etc/GMT-10", "Etc/GMT-11", "Etc/GMT-12", "Etc/GMT-13", "Etc/GMT-14", "Etc/GMT-2", "Etc/GMT-3", "Etc/GMT-4", "Etc/GMT-5", "Etc/GMT-6", "Etc/GMT-7", "Etc/GMT-8", "Etc/GMT-9", "Etc/GMT0", "Etc/Greenwich", "Etc/UCT", "Etc/UTC", "Etc/Universal", "Etc/Zulu", "Europe/Amsterdam", "Europe/Andorra", "Europe/Astrakhan", "Europe/Athens", "Europe/Belfast", "Europe/Belgrade", "Europe/Berlin", "Europe/Bratislava", "Europe/Brussels", "Europe/Bucharest", "Europe/Budapest", "Europe/Busingen", "Europe/Chisinau", "Europe/Copenhagen", "Europe/Dublin", "Europe/Gibraltar", "Europe/Guernsey", "Europe/Helsinki", "Europe/Isle_of_Man", "Europe/Istanbul", "Europe/Jersey", "Europe/Kaliningrad", "Europe/Kiev", "Europe/Kirov", "Europe/Kyiv", "Europe/Lisbon", "Europe/Ljubljana", "Europe/London", "Europe/Luxembourg", "Europe/Madrid", "Europe/Malta", "Europe/Mariehamn", "Europe/Minsk", "Europe/Monaco", "Europe/Moscow", "Europe/Nicosia", "Europe/Oslo", "Europe/Paris", "Europe/Podgorica", "Europe/Prague", "Europe/Riga", "Europe/Rome", "Europe/Samara", "Europe/San_Marino", "Europe/Sarajevo", "Europe/Saratov", "Europe/Simferopol", "Europe/Skopje", "Europe/Sofia", "Europe/Stockholm", "Europe/Tallinn", "Europe/Tirane", "Europe/Tiraspol", "Europe/Ulyanovsk", "Europe/Uzhgorod", "Europe/Vaduz", "Europe/Vatican", "Europe/Vienna", "Europe/Vilnius", "Europe/Volgograd", "Europe/Warsaw", "Europe/Zagreb", "Europe/Zaporozhye", "Europe/Zurich", "Factory", "GB", "GB-Eire", "GMT", "GMT+0", "GMT-0", "GMT0", "Greenwich", "HST", "Hongkong", "Iceland", "Indian/Antananarivo", "Indian/Chagos", "Indian/Christmas", "Indian/Cocos", "Indian/Comoro", "Indian/Kerguelen", "Indian/Mahe", "Indian/Maldives", "Indian/Mauritius", "Indian/Mayotte", "Indian/Reunion", "Iran", "Israel", "Jamaica", "Japan", "Kwajalein", "Libya", "MET", "MST", "MST7MDT", "Mexico/BajaNorte", "Mexico/BajaSur", "Mexico/General", "NZ", "NZ-CHAT", "Navajo", "PRC", "PST8PDT", "Pacific/Apia", "Pacific/Auckland", "Pacific/Bougainville", "Pacific/Chatham", "Pacific/Chuuk", "Pacific/Easter", "Pacific/Efate", "Pacific/Enderbury", "Pacific/Fakaofo", "Pacific/Fiji", "Pacific/Funafuti", "Pacific/Galapagos", "Pacific/Gambier", "Pacific/Guadalcanal", "Pacific/Guam", "Pacific/Honolulu", "Pacific/Johnston", "Pacific/Kanton", "Pacific/Kiritimati", "Pacific/Kosrae", "Pacific/Kwajalein", "Pacific/Majuro", "Pacific/Marquesas", "Pacific/Midway", "Pacific/Nauru", "Pacific/Niue", "Pacific/Norfolk", "Pacific/Noumea", "Pacific/Pago_Pago", "Pacific/Palau", "Pacific/Pitcairn", "Pacific/Pohnpei", "Pacific/Ponape", "Pacific/Port_Moresby", "Pacific/Rarotonga", "Pacific/Saipan", "Pacific/Samoa", "Pacific/Tahiti", "Pacific/Tarawa", "Pacific/Tongatapu", "Pacific/Truk", "Pacific/Wake", "Pacific/Wallis", "Pacific/Yap", "Poland", "Portugal", "ROC", "ROK", "Singapore", "Turkey", "UCT", "US/Alaska", "US/Aleutian", "US/Arizona", "US/Central", "US/East-Indiana", "US/Eastern", "US/Hawaii", "US/Indiana-Starke", "US/Michigan", "US/Mountain", "US/Pacific", "US/Samoa", "UTC", "Universal", "W-SU", "WET", "Zulu", "localtime" ], "minLength": 1, "title": "Timezone", "type": "string" }, "type": { "const": "approximate", "default": "approximate", "title": "Type", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "city", "timezone" ], "title": "UserLocation", "type": "object" } }, "properties": { "input": { "title": "Input", "type": "string" }, "model": { "default": "gpt-4o-mini", "enum": [ "gpt-4o", "gpt-4o-mini" ], "title": "Model", "type": "string" }, "search_context_size": { "default": "medium", "enum": [ "low", "medium", "high" ], "title": "Search Context Size", "type": "string" }, "type": { "default": "web_search_preview", "enum": [ "web_search_preview", "web_search_preview_2025_03_11" ], "title": "Type", "type": "string" }, "user_location": { "$ref": "#/$defs/UserLocation", "default": null } }, "required": [ "input" ], "title": "web_searchArguments", "type": "object" }

Implementation Reference

  • Registration of the web search tool named 'openai_web_search' using the FastMCP decorator, specifying name, description.
    @mcp.tool( name="openai_web_search", description="""OpenAI Web Search with reasoning models. For quick multi-round searches: Use 'gpt-5-mini' with reasoning_effort='low' for fast iterations. For deep research: Use 'gpt-5' with reasoning_effort='medium' or 'high'. The result is already multi-round reasoned, so agents don't need continuous iterations. Supports: gpt-4o (no reasoning), gpt-5/gpt-5-mini/gpt-5-nano, o3/o4-mini (with reasoning).""", )
  • The handler function that implements the web search logic by calling OpenAI's responses.create with web search tool and reasoning parameters.
    def openai_web_search( input: Annotated[str, Field(description="The search query or question to search for")], model: Annotated[Optional[Literal["gpt-4o", "gpt-4o-mini", "gpt-5", "gpt-5-mini", "gpt-5-nano", "o3", "o4-mini"]], Field(description="AI model to use. Defaults to OPENAI_DEFAULT_MODEL env var or gpt-5-mini")] = None, reasoning_effort: Annotated[Optional[Literal["low", "medium", "high", "minimal"]], Field(description="Reasoning effort level for supported models (gpt-5, o3, o4-mini). Default: low for gpt-5-mini, medium for others")] = None, type: Annotated[Literal["web_search_preview", "web_search_preview_2025_03_11"], Field(description="Web search API version to use")] = "web_search_preview", search_context_size: Annotated[Literal["low", "medium", "high"], Field(description="Amount of context to include in search results")] = "medium", user_location: Annotated[Optional[UserLocation], Field(description="Optional user location for localized search results")] = None, ) -> str: # 从环境变量读取默认模型,如果没有则使用 gpt-5-mini if model is None: model = os.getenv("OPENAI_DEFAULT_MODEL", "gpt-5-mini") client = OpenAI() # 判断是否为推理模型 reasoning_models = ["gpt-5", "gpt-5-mini", "gpt-5-nano", "o3", "o4-mini"] # 构建请求参数 request_params = { "model": model, "tools": [ { "type": type, "search_context_size": search_context_size, "user_location": user_location.model_dump() if user_location else None, } ], "input": input, } # 对推理模型设置智能默认值 if model in reasoning_models: if reasoning_effort is None: # gpt-5-mini 默认使用 low,其他推理模型默认 medium if model == "gpt-5-mini": reasoning_effort = "low" # 快速搜索 else: reasoning_effort = "medium" # 深度研究 request_params["reasoning"] = {"effort": reasoning_effort} response = client.responses.create(**request_params) return response.output_text
  • Pydantic schema defining the structure for user location input used in localized web searches.
    class UserLocation(BaseModel): type: Literal["approximate"] = "approximate" city: str country: str = None region: str = None timezone: TimeZoneName

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