Best Search MCP Servers
Search servers give Claude live access to web results, documentation, and domain-specific indexes instead of relying only on training data.
Ranked from 78 approved Search listings in the directory by GitHub stars, with featured listings first. Every listing is installable from its detail page.
mediar-ai/screenpipe
by mediar-ai
🎖️ 🦀 🏠 🍎 Local-first system capturing screen/audio with timestamped indexing, SQL/embedding storage, semantic search, LLM-powered history analysis, and event-triggered actions - enables building c
npx -y screenpipe@latestwonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP
by wonderwhy-er
📇 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - A swiss-army-knife that can manage/execute programs and read/write/search/edit code and text files.
npx -y @wonderwhy-er/desktop-commander@latestlharries/whatsapp-mcp
by lharries
🐍 🏎️ - An MCP server for searching your personal WhatsApp messages, contacts and sending messages to individuals or groups
npx -y lharries-whatsapp-mcpexa-labs/exa-mcp-server
by exa-labs
🎖️ 📇 ☁️ – A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server lets AI assistants like Claude use the Exa AI Search API for web searches. This setup allows AI models to get real-time web information in a safe and
npx -y exa-mcp-servergrafana/mcp-grafana
by grafana
🎖️ 🐍 🏠 ☁️ - Search dashboards, investigate incidents and query datasources in your Grafana instance
uvx mcp-grafanablazickjp/arxiv-mcp-server
by blazickjp
☁️ 🐍 - Search ArXiv research papers
npx -y -y @smithery/clidevflowinc/trieve
by devflowinc
🎖️ 📇 ☁️ 🏠 - Crawl, embed, chunk, search, and retrieve information from datasets through
npx -y -y @smithery/clidoobidoo/mcp-memory-service
by doobidoo
📇 🏠 - Universal memory service providing semantic search, persistent storage, and autonomous memory consolidation
uvx CIapify/actors-mcp-server
by apify
📇 ☁️ - Use 3,000+ pre-built cloud tools, known as Actors, to extract data from websites, e-commerce, social media, search engines, maps, and more
npx -y @apify/actors-mcp-serverapecloud/ApeRAG
by apecloud
🐍 ☁️ 🏠 - Production-ready RAG platform combining Graph RAG, vector search, and full-text search. Best choice for building your own Knowledge Graph and for Context Engineering
npx -y apecloud-aperagAas-ee/open-webSearch
by Aas-ee
🐍 📇 ☁️ - Web search using free multi-engine search (NO API KEYS REQUIRED) — Supports Bing, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Exa, and CSDN.
npx -y skillsnickclyde/duckduckgo-mcp-server
by nickclyde
MCP server that provides web search through DuckDuckGo, with additional tools for fetching and parsing webpage content. Search results are formatted for LLM consumption, over-long result URLs are shortened into ref:// tokens that the fetch tool accepts directly, and built-in rate limiting and error handling cover both search and content fetching.
uvx duckduckgo-mcp-serverbrave/brave-search-mcp-server
by brave
📇 ☁️ - Web search capabilities using Brave's Search API
npx -y inkaranb192/reddit-mcp-buddy
by karanb192
📇 🏠 - Browse Reddit posts, search content, and analyze user activity without API keys. Works out-of-the-box with Claude Desktop.
npx -y -y reddit-mcp-buddygenomoncology/biomcp
by genomoncology
🐍 ☁️ - Biomedical research MCP server providing access to PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and MyVariant.info.
npx -y genomoncology-biomcpopenbnb-org/mcp-server-airbnb
by openbnb-org
📇 ☁️ - Provides tools to search Airbnb and get listing details.
npx -y @openbnb/mcp-server-airbnbagentic-mcp-tools/memora
by agentic-mcp-tools
🐍 🏠 ☁️ - Persistent memory with knowledge graph visualization, semantic/hybrid search, cloud sync (S3/R2), and cross-session context management.
npx -y wranglerK-Dense-AI/claude-skills-mcp
by K-Dense-AI
🐍 ☁️ 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Intelligent search capabilities to let every model and client use like native.
uvx claude-skills-mcpkagisearch/kagimcp
by kagisearch
☁️ 📇 – Official Kagi Search MCP Server
npx -y -y @smithery/climuvon/octocode
by Muvon
](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/Muvon/) 🦀 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Semantic code indexer with GraphRAG knowledge graph. Index your codebase, search in natural language, and expose everything via MCP so AI agents
npx -y muvon-octocodemamertofabian/mcp-everything-search
by mamertofabian
🐍 🏠 🪟 - Fast Windows file search using Everything SDK
npx -y -y @smithery/cliGovcraft/rust-docs-mcp-server
by Govcraft
MCP server that provides up-to-date documentation for a specific Rust crate to LLM coding assistants. Each instance fetches one crate's documentation, generates embeddings for semantic search, and exposes a query_rust_docs tool that answers questions using summaries of the retrieved docs; multiple instances can run at once for different crates, and an OpenAI API key is required for embeddings and summarization.
npx -y govcraft-rust-docs-mcp-servercr7258/elasticsearch-mcp-server
by cr7258
🐍 🏠 - MCP Server implementation that provides Elasticsearch interaction
uvx Usinghannesrudolph/mcp-ragdocs
by hannesrudolph
🐍 🏠 - An MCP server implementation that provides tools for retrieving and processing documentation through vector search, enabling AI assistants to augment their responses with relevant documentatio
npx -y @hannesrudolph/mcp-ragdocsshinpr/mcp-local-rag
by shinpr
📇 🏠 - Privacy-first document search server running entirely locally. Supports semantic search over PDFs, DOCX, TXT, and Markdown files with LanceDB vector storage and local embeddings - no API keys
npx -y -y mcp-local-ragBurtTheCoder/mcp-maigret
by BurtTheCoder
📇 🪟 ☁️ - MCP server for maigret, a powerful OSINT tool that collects user account information from various public sources. This server provides tools for searching usernames across social networks a
npx -y -y @smithery/cliadhikasp/mcp-twikit
by adhikasp
🐍 ☁️ - Interact with Twitter search and timeline
npx -y -y @smithery/clihellokaton/unsplash-mcp-server
by hellokaton
MCP server for searching Unsplash images. It searches the Unsplash photo library with filters for keyword relevance, color schemes, and orientation, plus custom sorting and pagination, and requires an Unsplash API access key.
npx -y -y @smithery/cli@latestreading-plus-ai/mcp-server-deep-research
by reading-plus-ai
MCP server for conducting deep research on complex topics through a structured workflow. It elaborates and clarifies the research question, generates focused subquestions, searches the web for each subquestion, analyzes and synthesizes the sources with citations, and generates a structured research report; it is driven from a deep-research prompt template in an MCP client such as Claude Desktop.
npx -y reading-plus-ai-mcp-server-deep-researchandybrandt/mcp-simple-arxiv
by andybrandt
🐍 ☁️ MCP for LLM to search and read papers from arXiv
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