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Free Search MCP Server

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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.

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Nothing serious here today

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.

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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 free-search-mcp -- uvx free-search-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "free-search-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "free-search-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.free-search-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["free-search-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "free-search-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "free-search-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "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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Free Search — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Free Search?
Free Search 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 free-search-mcp.
How do I connect Free Search?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls free-search-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.