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Web Search MCP Server for use with Local LLMs A TypeScript MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides comprehensive web search capabilities using direct connections (no API keys required) with multiple tools for different use cases. Features Multi-Engine Web Search: Prioritises Bing Brave DuckDuckGo for optimal reliability and performance Full Page Content Extraction: Fetches and extracts complete page content from search results Multiple Search Tools: Three specialised tools for different use cases Smart Request Strategy: Switches between playwright browesrs and fast axios requests to ensure results are returned Concurrent Processing: Extracts content from multiple pages simultaneously How It Works The server provides three specialised tools for different web search needs: (Main Tool) When a comprehensive search is requested, the server uses an optimised search strategy: Browser-based Bing Search - Primary method using dedicated Chromium instance Browser-based Brave Search - Secondary option using dedicated Firefox instance Axios DuckDuckGo Search - Final fallback using traditional HTTP Dedicated browser isolation: Each search engine gets its own browser instance with...
| Stars | 1,073 |
| Forks | 156 |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 77.4173444366752/100 |
| Open Issues | 36 |
| Last Updated | 2025-08-08 |
| Created | 2025-06-27 |
| Platforms | browser, mcp, node |
| Est. Tokens | ~9k |
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web-search-mcp is A simple, locally hosted Web Search MCP server for use with Local LLMs. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 1.1k GitHub stars.
web-search-mcp is primarily written in TypeScript. It covers topics such as llm, lmstudio, local-llm.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the web-search-mcp GitHub repository at github.com/mrkrsl/web-search-mcp. The project has 1.1k stars and 156 forks, indicating an active community.
web-search-mcp is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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