Best Search & Web MCP servers

Fetches web pages and converts HTML to markdown so LLMs can read web content. Caution: can reach local/internal IPs.

Extract data from any website with thousands of scrapers, crawlers, and automations on Apify Store ⚡

🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.

The go-to web for your AI coding agent — local-first search, fetch, crawl & research over MCP. No API keys, no cloud, $0/query. Public beta.

Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.

Use any LLMs (Large Language Models) for Deep Research. Support SSE API and MCP server.

Convert Claude Code or Codex into the most intelligent Deep Research Agent. Collect, search, and synthesize web research into a persistent, searchable wiki that builds on itself. Hosted API + MCP: hyperresearch.ai

A local MCP server for agent literature work. Original-LaTeX section reads, BibTeX from arXiv metadata, and topic watches. Papers stay on disk. Search is optional.

MCP, CLI, Skills for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources like arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, etc.

A powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides an all-in-one solution for public web access.

The official MCP server implementation for the Perplexity API Platform

Production ready MCP server with real-time search, extract, map & crawl.

Fast, local-first web content extraction for LLMs. Scrape, crawl, extract structured data — all from Rust. CLI, REST API, and MCP server.

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

Multi-engine MCP server, CLI, and local daemon for agent web search and content retrieval — skill-guided workflows, no API keys.

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search capabilities through DuckDuckGo, with additional features for content fetching and parsing.

Visit https://brave.com/search/api/ for a free API key. Search the web, local businesses, images,…

Private web search for AI assistants via SearXNG — supports Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client

A simple, locally hosted Web Search MCP server for use with Local LLMs

Fast, lightweight Firecrawl/Tavily alternative in Rust. Web scraper, crawler & search API with MCP server for AI agents. Drop-in Firecrawl-compatible API (/scrape, /crawl, /search). 2.3x faster than Tavily, 1.5x faster than Firecrawl in 1K-URL benchmarks. 6 MB RAM, single binary. Self-host or use managed cloud.

MCP server and CLI tool for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive

Universal content reader MCP Server for 10+ platforms

139-tool MCP server for real-time global intelligence from free public APIs: markets, SEC filings, conflict, military, aircraft-cohort early warning, refugee and migration flows, cyber, climate, news, and 30+ domains. Cited AI situation briefs, geofences with change detection, live SSE dashboard. MIT, no paid API keys.

Official Jina AI Remote MCP Server

A flexible HTTP fetching Model Context Protocol server.

A Playwright-based Node.js tool that bypasses search engine anti-scraping mechanisms to execute Google searches. Local alternative to SERP APIs with MCP server integration.

The Official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kagi Search & other tools.

CoexistAI is a modular, developer-friendly research assistant framework . It enables you to build, search, summarize, and automate research workflows using LLMs, web search, Reddit, YouTube, and mapping tools—all with simple MCP tool calls or API calls or Python functions.

Rust MCP server for Grok web search and Tavily-backed source retrieval

Doctor is a tool for discovering, crawl, and indexing web sites to be exposed as an MCP server for LLM agents.

A MCP Server for Google Scholar: 🔍 Enable AI assistants to search and access Google Scholar papers through a simple MCP interface.

Kindly Web Search MCP Server: Web search + robust content retrieval for AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, etc.) and AI agents (Claude Desktop, OpenClaw, Hermes, etc.). Supports Serper, Tavily, and SearXNG.

🔍 A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing unified access to multiple search engines (Tavily, Brave, Kagi, Exa), AI tools (Kagi FastGPT, Exa, Linkup), and content extraction services (Firecrawl, Tavily, Kagi). Includes GitHub search. All through a single interface.

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search functionality using Perplexity AI's API.