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NetLens MCP Server

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NetLens runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 108 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 10 Oct 2026.

Read any web page as clean, ad-stripped Markdown past robots.txt and bot blocks, plus web search.

Installs per day peak 17 · avg 7 · -16% w/w
a month agotoday
108
Installs / week
npm · netlens-mcp
0
Stars
1 open issue
10 Oct 2026
Last commit
no releases in 90 days
Apache-2.0
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 1 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

      const output = execSync(`${cmd} --version`, {
    proc = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True)  # binary; we decode ourselves

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add netlens -- npx -y netlens-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "netlens": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "netlens-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.netlens]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "netlens-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "netlens": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "netlens-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "netlens": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "netlens-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: NETLENS_SEARCH_ENGINE (Default search backend: auto, duckduckgo, bing, mojeek, or searxng), NETLENS_SEARXNG_URL (Base URL of a SearXNG instance to use when engine=searxng (e.g. https://searx.example.org)).

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NetLens — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for NetLens?
NetLens 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 npm package netlens-mcp was installed 108 times last week.
How do I connect NetLens?
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 netlens-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use NetLens?
The npm package netlens-mcp was installed 108 times in the last week. Week over week that is -16%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is NetLens open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.