Is io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp safe to use?

io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It requires authentication to connect, which limits unauthorized access. Licensed under Apache-2.0.

How do I install io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp?

io.github.smjahid012/serper-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 io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp?

io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp actively maintained?

io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp is actively maintained - last commit was 2 days ago. It has 1 GitHub stars.

io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp

serper-search-mcp

Universal Google Search MCP: web, images, places, shopping, scholar, patents, deep research & RAG

1 584/wk GitHub npm

No known CVEs

Apache-2.0 license

Actively maintained

Last commit 2d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

0 tools

Grade F

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io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp is an MCP server that universal Google Search MCP: web, images, places, shopping, scholar, patents, deep research & RAG. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio, sse and http, requires no API key, and scores 61/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

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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": {
    "serper-search": {
      "env": {
        "EXA_API_KEY": "${EXA_API_KEY}",
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "${BRAVE_API_KEY}",
        "SERPER_API_KEY": "${SERPER_API_KEY}",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "${TAVILY_API_KEY}",
        "SEARCH_FALLBACK": "true",
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "${FIRECRAWL_API_KEY}",
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "${OPENROUTER_API_KEY}",
        "SEARCH_PROVIDER_ORDER": "serper,tavily,brave,exa"
      },
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "serper-search-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Is io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp safe to use?: io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It requires authentication to connect, which limits unauthorized access. Licensed under Apache-2.0.
How do I install io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp?: io.github.smjahid012/serper-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 io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp?: io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp actively maintained?: io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp is actively maintained - last commit was 2 days ago. It has 1 GitHub stars.

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Search Education

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": {
    "serper-search": {
      "env": {
        "EXA_API_KEY": "${EXA_API_KEY}",
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "${BRAVE_API_KEY}",
        "SERPER_API_KEY": "${SERPER_API_KEY}",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "${TAVILY_API_KEY}",
        "SEARCH_FALLBACK": "true",
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "${FIRECRAWL_API_KEY}",
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "${OPENROUTER_API_KEY}",
        "SEARCH_PROVIDER_ORDER": "serper,tavily,brave,exa"
      },
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "serper-search-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Universal Google Search MCP: web, images, places, shopping, scholar, patents, deep research & RAG

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🔍 Serper Search MCP Server v4.0

The First Universal Search Gateway for AI Agents — Google (Serper), Tavily, Brave, Exa, and Firecrawl with auto-failover, 14 tools, and token-smart verbosity.

What this does

This MCP server wraps the Serper API (Google Search results) and exposes 14 tools that any MCP-compatible AI client (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, KiloCode, n8n, etc.) can call in real time — including web, image, video, news, shopping, places, scholar, patents, autocomplete, full-page scraping, and batch search.

Tool	What you get
`search` ⭐	Unified search `{type, provider, verbosity}` — 1 schema (~700 tokens vs ~7k for all)
`search_web`	Organic results + Knowledge Graph + Answer Box + "People Also Ask" + Related Searches
`search_images`	Image URLs, thumbnails, dimensions, source pages + `gallery` layout + `size/orientation/color/site`
`search_videos`	Titles, channels, durations, links
`search_news`	Headlines, sources, dates — freshness-filtered
`search_shopping`	Products, prices, ratings, delivery info (always rich)
`search_places`	Local businesses & POIs with address, phone, full 7-day hours, GPS + Directions (always rich)
`search_scholar` 🆕	Academic papers with authors, journal, year, and citation counts
`search_patents` 🆕	Patents with publication number, assignee, inventor, dates
`autocomplete` 🆕	Query completions — cheap, no LLM needed
`scrape` 🆕	Full page content as markdown — read articles found via search
`search_many` 🆕	1–10 parallel web searches with automatic cross-query dedupe
`deep_research`	Multi-step research: auto sub-queries → parallel searches → LLM-synthesized cited report
`search_rag_context`	Clean chunked text with metadata for embedding pipelines & vector DBs — no LLM needed
`resolve_links` 🆕	Turn `google.com/goto` redirect links from a search into real URLs (free, 0 credits)

Verbosity (token-smart, auto by default)

Mode	Who	What	Tokens
`auto` (default)	server picks	dev→compact, chat→standard, scholar/research→full, places/shopping/images→always rich	varies
`compact`	dev coding	title+URL+1-line snippet, no KG/PAA/Related	~800
`standard`	normal chat	KG + Answer Box + 10 organic	~4k
`full`	researcher	everything + citations	~5k

Credit rule: compact fetches num=5 (never fetch-10-show-3). 1 search = 1 credit, cache hit = 0, scrape ≈ 2. deep_research: basic 3cr / standard 5cr / deep 8cr.

Providers (universal gateway — auto-failover)

Provider	Cost per 1k	When to use
Serper (default)	$3-5, 2500 free/mo	Cheapest Google truth — keep first
Tavily fallback	$8-16	AI-reranked, finance/news topics
Brave fallback	$5	Independent index, private, 669ms
Exa fallback	$4-7	Neural semantic when keywords fail
Firecrawl fallback	~$3-4 eff	JS-rendered scraping & search upgrade

SEARCH_PROVIDER_ORDER=serper,tavily,brave,exa  # failover chain
SEARCH_FALLBACK=true                           #

... [View full README on GitHub](https://github.com/smjahid012/serper-search-mcp-server#readme)

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Why this score

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Score breakdown

61/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−39

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Compatibility

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OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

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Is io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp safe to use?: io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It requires authentication to connect, which limits unauthorized access. Licensed under Apache-2.0.
How do I install io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp?: io.github.smjahid012/serper-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 io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp?: io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp actively maintained?: io.github.smjahid012/serper-search-mcp is actively maintained - last commit was 2 days ago. It has 1 GitHub stars.