This server provides a comprehensive suite of web research tools combining Google-powered search, content extraction, and specialized discovery capabilities.
Web Search: Search the web via Google Custom Search API, returning URLs, titles, and snippets. Supports filtering by country, language, time range, exact phrases, site restrictions, and safe search.
Page Scraping: Extract text from any URL — including static and JavaScript-rendered pages, YouTube videos (via transcripts), and documents (PDF, DOCX, PPTX). Includes a preview mode to inspect page structure before full retrieval.
Search & Scrape Combined: Perform a Google search and automatically retrieve content from top results in a single call, returning deduplicated, combined content with source attribution — ideal for multi-source research.
Image Search: Find images with filters for size, type (photo, clipart, face, lineart, animated), color type, dominant color, and file format.
News Search: Discover recent news articles with freshness filters (hour/day/week/month/year), sorting by relevance or date, and optional restriction to a specific news source domain.
Academic Paper Search: Search peer-reviewed papers from arXiv, PubMed, IEEE, Nature, Springer, and more. Returns abstracts, authors, publication years, PDF links, and pre-formatted citations (APA, MLA, BibTeX).
Patent Search: Research patents via Google Patents with filters for assignee, inventor, CPC code, patent office (USPTO, EPO, WIPO, etc.), and date range. Supports prior art discovery and technology landscape analysis.
Sequential Research Tracking: Manage complex, multi-step research sessions across multiple API calls, supporting branching paths, knowledge gap identification, revision of earlier steps, and session persistence.
Provides academic paper search capabilities through the arXiv repository, enabling AI assistants to find research papers with citation formats (APA, MLA, BibTeX), abstracts, and PDF links.
Enables web search capabilities via Google Custom Search API, providing general web search with site, date, and language filtering for research and information gathering.
Provides news search functionality through Google News, allowing AI assistants to find current news articles with freshness controls and date sorting.
Enables academic paper search through IEEE repositories, providing access to peer-reviewed technical papers and research publications.
Provides biomedical and life sciences paper search capabilities through PubMed, enabling access to medical research articles and scientific publications.
Enables academic paper search through Springer repositories, providing access to scientific and technical research publications.
Provides automatic transcript extraction from YouTube videos, enabling AI assistants to access and analyze video content through text transcripts.
⚠️ This project has been superseded by
web-researcher-mcp.A complete rewrite in Go: same tools, but it cites real sources and stays honest — citation verification, retraction flagging, eight search providers behind one interface, and a single signed static binary. No Node.js, no npm.
Your API keys and tool calls don't change — only how the server is launched. Pick whichever you prefer (no Node required):
# macOS / Linux — installs the binary and registers it with Claude Code automatically:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp/main/install.sh | sh
# Windows (PowerShell):
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp/main/install.ps1 | iex"
# Python users (uv) — run with no install:
uvx web-researcher-mcpThe config keeps the same shape — swap the command/args, keep your env:
// BEFORE — google-researcher-mcp (npx / Node)
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-researcher": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "google-researcher-mcp"],
"env": { "GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY": "…", "GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID": "…" }
}
}
}
// AFTER — web-researcher-mcp (installed binary; or use "uvx" + args ["web-researcher-mcp"])
{
"mcpServers": {
"web-researcher": {
"command": "web-researcher-mcp",
"env": { "GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY": "…", "GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID": "…" }
}
}
}Don't run both at once — they register identical tool names. Remove the
google-researcherentry before addingweb-researcher.
Your existing GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY and GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID work unchanged.
Related MCP server: Web Research Assistant
Open Issue | Resolution in web-researcher-mcp |
#108 — Orphan detection fails via npx | Go binary has native process lifecycle (EOF/SIGPIPE) — no npm wrapper |
#107 — Google discontinuing 'entire web' search | Eight providers (Brave, Serper, SearXNG, SearchAPI, Tavily, Exa, DuckDuckGo + Google PSE for lenses) with automatic fallback |
#55 — Support alternative search engines | Multiple engines behind one interface, plus a zero-config DuckDuckGo default |
#72 — Add Redis caching | Hybrid cache: memory + AES-encrypted disk + optional Redis |
#40 — Split server.ts into modules | Fully modular Go architecture (one package per concern) |
Plus what's new: verify_citation and audit_bibliography (catch fabricated/retracted citations), academic / patent / SEC-filing / US-case-law / economic / clinical-trial search, and authority-weighted search lenses.
New project: https://github.com/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp
Install (all methods): README → Get started
Docker: docker pull zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp:latest
Releases: https://github.com/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp/releases
Unclaimed servers have limited discoverability.
If you are the server author, to access and configure the admin panel.
SEO research, audits, backlinks, GSC, and content workflow tools for AI agents.
Search arXiv/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex + medical evidence (PubMed/Europe PMC) + LaTeX/PDF tools.
11 company intelligence tools — financials, tech stack, competitors, patents, jobs, news. Free.
We provide all the information about MCP servers via our MCP API.
curl -X GET 'https://glama.ai/api/mcp/v1/servers/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp'
If you have feedback or need assistance with the MCP directory API, please join our Discord server