Search1API MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides search and crawl functionality using Search1API.

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Features

Web search functionality
News search functionality
Web page content extraction
Website sitemap extraction
Deep thinking and complex problem solving with DeepSeek R1
Seamless integration with Claude Desktop, Cursor and Windsurf

Tools

1. Search Tool

Name: search
Description: Search the web using Search1API
Parameters:
- query (required): Search query
- max_results (optional, default: 10): Number of results to return
- search_service (optional, default: "google"): Search service to use

2. News Tool

Name: news
Description: Search for news articles using Search1API
Parameters:
- query (required): Search query
- max_results (optional, default: 10): Number of results to return
- search_service (optional, default: "google"): Search service to use

3. Crawl Tool

Name: crawl
Description: Extract content from a URL using Search1API
Parameters:
- url (required): URL to crawl

4. Sitemap Tool

Name: sitemap
Description: Get all related links from a URL
Parameters:
- url (required): URL to get sitemap

5. Reasoning Tool

Name: reasoning
Description: A tool for deep thinking and complex problem solving with fast deepseek r1 model and web search ability(You can change to any other model in search1api website but the speed is not guaranteed)
Parameters:
- content (required): The question or problem that needs deep thinking

Setup Guide

1. Get Search1API Key

Register at Search1API
Get your api key and 100 free credits

2. Configure

2.1 Claude Desktop

Update your Claude configuration file (claude_desktop_config.json) with the following content:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search1api": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "search1api-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH1API_KEY": "YOUR_SEARCH1API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration file location:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

2.2 Cursor

Easy way:

Open Cursor Settings to add new MCP server search1api with the command env SEARCH1API_KEY=your-search1api-key npx -y search1api-mcp
Add your own Search1API key to the command

Safe way:

Copy the run.template.sh to your file path and rename it to run.sh
Add your own Search1API key to the run.sh file
Open Cursor Settings to add new MCP server search1api with the command sh ./your_file_path/run.sh

Read the Cursor MCP Server Official Documentation to get more information.

2.3 Windsurf

Update your Windsurf configuration file (mcp_config.json) with the following content:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search1api": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "search1api-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH1API_KEY": "YOUR_SEARCH1API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Read the Windsurf MCP Server Official Documentation to get more information.

Notice: After the configuration is done, you can close Windsurf offcial web tools to save your credits

Version History

v0.1.4: Added reasoning tool with deepseek r1 and updated the Cursor and Windsurf configuration guide
v0.1.3: Added news search functionality
v0.1.2: Added sitemap functionality
v0.1.1: Added web crawling functionality
v0.1.0: Initial release with search functionality

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.