OpenResearch MCP Server

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OpenResearch MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 158 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 9 Jul 2026.

Zero-auth research MCP: web, academic, finance, news, weather, macro, social, SEC. No keys.

Installs per day peak 80 · avg 33 · -34% w/w

a month agotoday

158

Installs / week

pypi · openresearch-mcp

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0 open issues

9 Jul 2026

Last commit

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Apache-2.0

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check OpenResearch MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add openresearch-mcp -- uvx openresearch-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openresearch-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "openresearch-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.openresearch-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["openresearch-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openresearch-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "openresearch-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "openresearch-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "openresearch-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: GITHUB_TOKEN (GitHub token — increases rate limit from 60 to 5,000 req/hr), OPENALEX_EMAIL (Your email for the OpenAlex polite pool (higher rate limits)), STACKEXCHANGE_KEY (Stack Exchange API key for higher daily quota on Stack Overflow searches), SEC_USER_AGENT (Your contact email/string for SEC EDGAR fair-access; a default is used otherwise).

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OpenResearch MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for OpenResearch MCP?

OpenResearch MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package openresearch-mcp was installed 158 times last week.

How do I connect OpenResearch MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls openresearch-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use OpenResearch MCP?

The pypi package openresearch-mcp was installed 158 times in the last week. Week over week that is -34%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is OpenResearch MCP open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 11 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.