Free Search runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping.
No-API-key web search, page fetching and document reading across many engines. Local-first.
Today is the operative word: we check Free Search every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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 free-search-mcp -- uvx free-search-mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"free-search-mcp": {
"args": [
"free-search-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.free-search-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["free-search-mcp"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"free-search-mcp": {
"args": [
"free-search-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"free-search-mcp": {
"args": [
"free-search-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
SEARCH_MCP_PROXY (Optional outbound proxy URL (http://, https:// or socks5://) for engines that block your network.), SEARCH_MCP_REGION (Optional default region-language for results, e.g. us-en, uk-en, cn-zh. Default: us-en.), SEARCH_MCP_CACHE_DIR (Optional directory for the local search/page cache. Default: ~/.cache/search-mcp.).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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