MCP Web Search Server

A powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI agents with internet search and web content capabilities.

Features

This MCP server provides 19 tools for web interaction:

🔍 Search Tools

• search_web - DuckDuckGo text search

• search_news - Latest news search

• search_images - Image search

• search_youtube - YouTube video search

• search_wikipedia - Wikipedia article search

• search_maps - Places/maps search

• batch_search - Multiple queries in one call

🌐 Web Fetching Tools

• fetch_webpage - Fetch static HTML pages

• fetch_webpage_js - Fetch JavaScript-rendered pages (Playwright)

• fetch_as_markdown - Convert webpage to clean Markdown (LLM-friendly)

• crawl_website - Multi-page website crawling

📄 Content Extraction Tools

• get_youtube_transcript - Extract YouTube video transcripts

• read_pdf_url - Read PDF documents from URLs

• extract_links - Extract all links from a page

• get_page_metadata - Get SEO/meta information

• take_screenshot - Capture webpage screenshots

🛠️ Utility Tools

• get_weather - Weather lookup

• translate_text - Text translation

• clear_cache - Clear cached results

Related MCP server: MCP Web Tools Server

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10+

• pip

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/MCP-Web-Search.git
cd MCP-Web-Search

2. Create and activate virtual environment:

python -m venv .venv
# Windows
.venv\Scripts\activate
# macOS/Linux
source .venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies:

pip install fastmcp ddgs httpx lxml playwright markdownify youtube-transcript-api pymupdf

4. Install Playwright browser:

python -m playwright install chromium

Configuration

VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

Add to your settings.json or create .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "internet-search": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "/path/to/.venv/Scripts/python.exe",
      "args": ["/path/to/search_server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Google Antigravity IDE

Add to your mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "internet-search": {
      "command": "/path/to/.venv/Scripts/python.exe",
      "args": ["/path/to/search_server.py"],
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "internet-search": {
      "command": "/path/to/.venv/Scripts/python.exe",
      "args": ["/path/to/search_server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Usage Examples

Once configured, you can ask your AI assistant:

• "Search the web for latest Python 3.13 features"

• "Fetch the content from python.org as markdown"

• "Get the transcript of this YouTube video: [URL]"

• "Read this PDF document: [URL]"

• "Take a screenshot of example.com"

• "What's the weather in New York?"

Testing

Run the server in test mode:

python search_server.py --test "your search query"

License

MIT License

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.