Is io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval safe to use?

io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval 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 io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval?

io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval 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 io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval?

io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval actively maintained?

io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval is actively maintained — last commit was 2 days ago. It has 9 GitHub stars.

io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval

Web search, image search, and page scraping as Markdown. No API keys required.

9 GitHub

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 2d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

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io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval is an MCP server that web search, image search, and page scraping as Markdown. No API keys required. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio, sse and http, requires no API key, and scores 42/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

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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": {
    "retrieval": {
      "env": {
        "MAX_RESULTS": "20"
      },
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/mcp-retrieval"
    }
  }
}

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Is io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval safe to use?: io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval 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 io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval?: io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval 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 io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval?: io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval actively maintained?: io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval is actively maintained — last commit was 2 days ago. It has 9 GitHub stars.

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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": {
    "retrieval": {
      "env": {
        "MAX_RESULTS": "20"
      },
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/mcp-retrieval"
    }
  }
}

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mcp-retrieval

An MCP server that gives an LLM three web tools: search, image search, and page scraping — no API keys required.

Tools · Quick start · Configuration · Retrieval engine · Architecture · Contributing

What it is

mcp-retrieval is a Model Context Protocol server written in Go. It exposes web retrieval capabilities to any MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, IDE agents, custom LLM apps) as three read-only tools. Under the hood it uses the retrieval-go library to search the web and fetch pages, returning results as clean Markdown ready to hand to a model.

The library needs no API keys: web search goes through DuckDuckGo Lite, image search through Bing Images, and page fetching runs the HTML through a readability extractor before converting it to Markdown. To stay reliable against bot protection it impersonates real browsers at the TLS level and can rotate both browser fingerprints and proxies — see Retrieval engine.

Both transports the MCP SDK supports are available and expose the identical tool set:

stdio — the client launches the binary and talks over stdin/stdout (the default, ideal for desktop clients).
http — a long-running streamable HTTP server (useful for remote/shared deployments).

Tools

Tool	Description
`web_search`	Runs one or more queries in parallel and returns per-query deduplicated, reranked snippets with links.
`web_search_images`	Runs one or more image queries in parallel and returns per-query deduplicated image results.
`web_scrape`	Downloads one or more pages in parallel and returns the main article text as Markdown.

All three are annotated as read-only. Each tool returns a structured JSON payload that matches its output schema; the SDK mirrors the same JSON into the text content block for clients that do not read structuredContent.

`web_search`

Parameter	Type	Default	Notes
`queries`	`[]string`	—	Required. Executed in parallel.
`max_results`	`int`	`5`	Snippets per query, capped at `max_results` config (`20`).
`timeout_ms`	`int64`	`5000`	Whole-call timeout; clamped to `[min, max]` from config.
`date`	`string`	—	Freshness filter: `d` (day), `w` (week), `m` (month), `y` (year).

`web_search_images`

Parameter	Type	Default	Notes
`queries`	`[]string`	—	Required. Executed in parallel.
`max_images`	`int`	`5`	Images per query, capped at `max_images` co

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42/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−58

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

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Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

No package registry to scan.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval safe to use?: io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval 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 io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval?: io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval 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 io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval?: io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval actively maintained?: io.github.Role1776/mcp-retrieval is actively maintained — last commit was 2 days ago. It has 9 GitHub stars.