AnySearch MCP Server

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Unified real-time search MCP server supporting general web search, vertical domain search, parallel batch search, and full-page URL content extraction.

Features

• General Web Search — open-ended natural language queries

• Vertical Domain Search — structured queries across finance, academic, security, legal, code, and more

• Parallel Batch Search — execute multiple independent queries in one call

• URL Content Extraction — fetch and extract full page content as Markdown

• Anonymous Access — works without an API key (with lower rate limits)

Related MCP server: Scout

API Key Configuration

An API key is optional but recommended. Without a key, all features still work via anonymous access with lower rate limits.

Register for an API Key (Recommended)

The agent can register the user and obtain an API key in a single call — no verification code, no manual signup. Ask the user for a real email address: it becomes the account username.

curl -s -X POST "https://api.anysearch.com/v1/auth/email/register" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email": "you@example.com"}'

Success response (code: 0) returns the account info and a one-time plaintext API key:

{
  "code": 0,
  "message": "success",
  "data": {
    "username": "you@example.com",
    "email": "you@example.com",
    "login_url": "https://www.anysearch.com/login",
    "api_key": {
      "id": "key_xxxxxxxx",
      "key": "as_sk_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
      "key_prefix": "as_sk_xxxxxx...",
      "name": "default",
      "rate_limit": 100,
      "quota_limit": 0,
      "expires_at": null,
      "created_at": "2026-06-23T10:23:00Z"
    }
  }
}

On success the agent MUST:

1. Put data.api_key.key into the MCP server config as the Authorization: Bearer <key> value (and/or set ANYSEARCH_API_KEY) — it is shown only once (it can also be retrieved later from the dashboard).

2. Tell the user their username (= email) and the login_url.

Error handling (always code: -1 on error; branch on the message string):

The email must be real and reachable.

Get an API Key

Alternatively, visit https://anysearch.com/console/api-keys to create a free API key.

Key Priority

Key Behavior

MCP Transport

The production endpoint is:

https://api.anysearch.com/mcp

It natively uses Streamable HTTP. Current OpenCode, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and Cline releases can connect to it directly; no SSE or stdio proxy is needed. The configurations below follow each client's current official documentation.

Installation

The API key is optional. In clients that support custom headers, the examples use the recommended authenticated setup. To use anonymous access, remove only the Authorization entry and keep X-Anysearch-Client.

OpenCode

Official docs: MCP servers and configuration locations.

Use ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json for a global configuration or opencode.json in the project root. On Windows, the global path is %USERPROFILE%\.config\opencode\opencode.json.

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "anysearch": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.anysearch.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true,
      "oauth": false,
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer {env:ANYSEARCH_API_KEY}",
        "X-Anysearch-Client": "mcp/1.0.0"
      }
    }
  }
}

OpenCode uses {env:NAME} for environment-variable substitution. "oauth": false prevents an unnecessary OAuth discovery flow for this API-key-authenticated server.

Claude Code

Official docs: Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP.

For a private, user-wide installation, run:

claude mcp add --transport http anysearch https://api.anysearch.com/mcp --scope user --header "Authorization: Bearer <your_api_key>" --header "X-Anysearch-Client: mcp/1.0.0"

The user scope stores the server in ~/.claude.json and makes it available across all projects on the machine. For anonymous access, omit the Authorization --header option.

For a shareable project configuration, create .mcp.json in the project root:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anysearch": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.anysearch.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${ANYSEARCH_API_KEY}",
        "X-Anysearch-Client": "mcp/1.0.0"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code expands ${VAR} and ${VAR:-default} in .mcp.json, including inside url and headers. Set ANYSEARCH_API_KEY before starting Claude Code. Project-scoped servers require approval when first opened interactively.

Verify the connection with:

claude mcp get anysearch
claude mcp list

Inside Claude Code, /mcp shows the server status and available tools.

Cursor

Official docs: Model Context Protocol.

Use .cursor/mcp.json for a project or ~/.cursor/mcp.json globally:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anysearch": {
      "url": "https://api.anysearch.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${env:ANYSEARCH_API_KEY}",
        "X-Anysearch-Client": "mcp/1.0.0"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor automatically recognizes the remote HTTP endpoint and supports ${env:NAME} interpolation in url and headers.

VS Code

Official docs: MCP configuration reference.

Run MCP: Open User Configuration for a user-wide server, or create .vscode/mcp.json in a workspace. This example uses a password input so the key is prompted for and stored securely instead of being committed:

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "anysearch-api-key",
      "description": "AnySearch API key",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "anysearch": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.anysearch.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:anysearch-api-key}",
        "X-Anysearch-Client": "mcp/1.0.0"
      }
    }
  }
}

For anonymous access, remove the Authorization entry and the entire inputs array.

Windsurf

Official docs: Cascade MCP integration.

Open Settings > Tools > Windsurf Settings > Add Server, or edit ~/.codeium/mcp_config.json via View Raw Config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anysearch": {
      "serverUrl": "https://api.anysearch.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${env:ANYSEARCH_API_KEY}",
        "X-Anysearch-Client": "mcp/1.0.0"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf supports environment-variable interpolation in serverUrl, url, and headers. Refresh the MCP server list after saving.

Cline

Official docs: MCP.

In the Cline panel, open MCP Servers > Configure > Configure MCP Servers, or add a hosted endpoint from the Remote Servers tab. Use the explicit streamableHttp type; omitting it falls back to legacy SSE behavior.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anysearch": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://api.anysearch.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <your_api_key>",
        "X-Anysearch-Client": "mcp/1.0.0"
      },
      "disabled": false,
      "autoApprove": []
    }
  }
}

For Cline CLI, the config file is ~/.cline/mcp.json; cline mcp opens the interactive MCP wizard.

Client Quick Reference

Available Tools

search

Execute a search query — general or vertical domain.

get_sub_domains

Query the vertical domain directory. Required before any search that uses a domain — returns valid sub_domains and their parameter schemas.

Returns a Markdown table: sub_domain | description | params

batch_search

Execute 1–5 independent search queries in parallel. Single failure does not block others.

extract

Fetch full page content from a URL and return as Markdown. Truncated at 50,000 characters. HTML pages only.