Cline MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that adds web search, image search, image downloading, webpage reading, command execution, and PDF parsing — all without needing API keys.

Tools

Related MCP server: mcp-web-calc

Setup

1. Build the server

npm install
npm run build

2. Configure as MCP server

Add this entry to your MCP settings (adjust the path to where you cloned this repo):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cline-tools": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["<path-to-repo>/dist/index.js"],
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

3. Restart your IDE/client

After saving the config, restart the extension or reload the window. The tools should appear in the MCP tools list.

Usage Examples

Search the web:

"Search for the latest React 19 features"

Search for images (with pagination):

"Find images of Pirelli tyres, page 2, minimum 1920px wide"

Read a webpage:

"Fetch the content from https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/"

Download images:

"Download the image at https://example.com/photo.jpg to /Users/you/project/downloads/photo.jpg"

Run commands:

"Run ls -la in my home directory"

Read PDFs:

"Extract the text from /Users/you/documents/paper.pdf"

Development

# Run in development mode (no build needed)
npm run dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Run the built server
npm start

How It Works

• Web search scrapes DuckDuckGo's HTML results page (no API key required)

• Image search uses DuckDuckGo's image API with pagination and client-side pixel filtering

• Webpage fetching uses Cheerio to extract clean text, stripping ads/nav/scripts

• Image download streams the file to disk with content-type validation (requires absolute paths)

• Command execution has a blocklist for dangerous patterns (rm -rf /, fork bombs, etc.)

• PDF reading works with both local files and URLs

Requirements

• Node.js 20+

• No API keys needed — everything works out of the box