MCP Web Research MCP Server

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 mcp add mcp-web-research -- npx -y @opafex/mcp-web-research

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-web-research": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@opafex/mcp-web-research"
      ]
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.mcp-web-research]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@opafex/mcp-web-research"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-web-research": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@opafex/mcp-web-research"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-web-research": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@opafex/mcp-web-research"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY (Brave Search API key; enables web_search and research_topic (recommended)), WEB_RESEARCH_SEARCH_PROVIDER (Search provider: "brave" or "duckduckgo" (unofficial HTML scraper, explicit opt-in only)), USER_AGENT (User-Agent sent with every request (default identifies the bot and links to the repo)), SEARCH_CACHE_TTL (Search result cache TTL in seconds (default: 900)), PAGE_CACHE_TTL (Fetched page cache TTL in seconds (default: 3600)), FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS (Per-request timeout in milliseconds, across all redirect hops (default: 10000)), MAX_HTML_SIZE (Maximum bytes read from a page body (default: 1000000)).