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SearchClaw MCP Server

The complete web data pipeline for AI agents. Search, Extract, Crawl in One API.

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with 15 tools covering web search, scraping, extraction, crawling, and autonomous data gathering via the SearchClaw API.

Installation

npx searchclaw-mcp

Or install globally:

npm install -g searchclaw-mcp

Configuration

Get your API key from searchclaw.dev and add the server to your MCP client config.

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchclaw": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "searchclaw-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SEARCHCLAW_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add searchclaw -- npx -y searchclaw-mcp

Then set your API key in your environment:

export SEARCHCLAW_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json in your project:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchclaw": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "searchclaw-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SEARCHCLAW_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchclaw": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "searchclaw-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SEARCHCLAW_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Available Tools (15)

Tool

Description

Credits

search

Web search — organic results

1

search_ai

RAG-ready search with context and sources (primary tool for AI agents)

2

news

Search recent news articles

1

images

Search for images with metadata

1

suggest

Autocomplete / query suggestions

1

Extract & Scrape

Tool

Description

Credits

extract

Extract structured data from a URL using a JSON schema

5

markdown

Convert any URL to clean markdown

2

screenshot

Capture a full-page screenshot of a URL

2

Crawl

Tool

Description

Credits

crawl

Async bulk crawl with optional structured extraction

1/page

job_status

Check status of an async crawl job

0

map

Discover all URLs on a domain (sitemap alternative)

2

Pipeline & Agents

Tool

Description

Credits

pipeline

Search + extract in one call — the killer feature for RAG pipelines

3+

browse

Interactive browser actions (click, type, scroll)

5

agent

Autonomous data gathering from natural language prompts

variable

Utility

Tool

Description

Credits

usage

Check your remaining API credits

0

Why SearchClaw?

Feature

SearchClaw

Firecrawl

Tavily

Web search

AI search (RAG)

Extract with schema

Crawl

Pipeline (search + extract)

Autonomous agent

Browser actions

News & image search

Screenshot

MCP server

Free tier

✅ 500 credits/mo

✅ 1000 credits/mo

Get started at searchclaw.dev.

License

MIT

Install Server
A
security – no known vulnerabilities
A
license - permissive license
A
quality - confirmed to work

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