Is Free Search MCP safe to use?

Free Search MCP has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Free Search MCP?

Free Search MCP supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What AI clients work with Free Search MCP?

Free Search MCP is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Free Search MCP actively maintained?

Free Search MCP is actively maintained — last commit was 17 days ago. It has 53 GitHub stars.

Free Search MCP

Name: Free Search MCP
Author: sweetcornna

free-search-mcp · by sweetcornna

Local-first, no-API-key MCP server for web search, fetch, and document reading. Multi-engine (DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Startpage), smart Playwright fallback, FTS5 cache, LLM-tuned output.

53 GitHub PyPI

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 17d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

0 tools

Grade F

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Free Search MCP is an MCP server that local-first, no-API-key MCP server for web search, fetch, and document reading. Multi-engine (DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Startpage), smart Playwright fallback, FTS5 cache, LLM-tuned output. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio, sse and http, requires no API key, and scores 59/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

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Step 1

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Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search": {
      "args": [
        "search-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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What Free Search MCP does

A local-first, no-API-key Model Context Protocol server that gives any LLM (Claude, GPT, local Ollama, …) the ability to search the web, fetch and clean up pages, and read documents — without you signing up for a single

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Is Free Search MCP safe to use?: Free Search MCP has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Free Search MCP?: Free Search MCP supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Free Search MCP?: Free Search MCP is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Free Search MCP actively maintained?: Free Search MCP is actively maintained — last commit was 17 days ago. It has 53 GitHub stars.

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Search Browser

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search": {
      "args": [
        "search-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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free-search-mcp

A local-first, no-API-key Model Context Protocol server that gives any LLM (Claude, GPT, local Ollama, …) the ability to search the web, fetch and clean up pages, and read documents — without you signing up for a single search API.

It bundles together the best ideas from a handful of open-source MCPs into one Python package, and adds the LLM-ergonomics and reliability work they were each missing.

research("how does reciprocal rank fusion work", depth=3)
   ↓
# Research brief: how does reciprocal rank fusion work
_engines: duckduckgo, mojeek, googlenews · sources: 3 · ~3,400 tokens_

## Sources
- [1] Reciprocal rank fusion | Elasticsearch Reference — <https://…>
- [2] Hybrid Search Scoring (RRF) | Microsoft Learn — <https://…>
- [3] RRF explained in 4 mins — Medium — <https://…>

## Documents
…full Markdown bodies of each page, ready for the LLM to read…

One tool call. Three sources. No API key. No OPENAI_API_KEY-but-for-search shakedown.

🚀 One-click deploy

One command — the keyless engines work immediately, no signup, no key, no checkout (needs uv):

claude mcp add search -- uvx free-search-mcp      # Claude Code
codex mcp add search -- uvx free-search-mcp       # Codex

Any other MCP client: point it at the command uvx free-search-mcp (stdio). The first run downloads the package from PyPI; every HTTP engine works with no further setup.

Optional — browser-rendered engines (startpage, zhihu, …) and JS-heavy page fetches need Chromium once:

uvx --from free-search-mcp playwright install chromium

Without it, HTTP search/fetch keep working, and any call that needs the browser returns that exact install command instead of a cryptic failure.

Configuration (all optional) lives in ~/.config/search-mcp/.env — see Configuration.

Full install (source checkout + client registration)

curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sweetcornna/free-search-mcp/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --client claude-code

It clones or updates the project under ~/.local/share/free-search-mcp, installs uv, syncs dependencies, installs Chromium for rendered engines (with OS deps on Linux), smoke-tests the server, and registers the search MCP server in Claude Code user scope.

Other client targets:

curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sweetcornna/free-search-mcp/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --client claude-desktop
curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sweetcornna/free-search-mcp/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --client codex
curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sweetcornna/free-search-mcp/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --client generic
curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sweetcornna/free-search-mcp/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --client add-mcp
curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sweetcornna/free-search-mcp/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --client all

Codex, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Zed, and generic agent guidance: docs/AGENT_USAGE.md.

Optional extras, any time (the defaults already work without them):

uv run search-mcp-admin        # bilingual browser UI / 中英双语配置页: http://127.0.0.1:8765
uv run search-mcp-login zhihu  # one-time Zhihu login (persists cookies)

Prefer containers? docker compose run --rm search-mcp. Claude Desktop and other clients: see Install below.

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Why this score

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Score breakdown

59/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−41

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

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Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked free-search-mcp against OSV.dev.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Free Search MCP safe to use?: Free Search MCP has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Free Search MCP?: Free Search MCP supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Free Search MCP?: Free Search MCP is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Free Search MCP actively maintained?: Free Search MCP is actively maintained — last commit was 17 days ago. It has 53 GitHub stars.