Is Mcp Google Cse safe to use?

Mcp Google Cse 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 Unlicense.

How do I install Mcp Google Cse?

Mcp Google Cse 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 can Mcp Google Cse do?

Mcp Google Cse provides 1 tool: google_search. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Mcp Google Cse?

Mcp Google Cse is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Mcp Google Cse actively maintained?

Mcp Google Cse is recently maintained — last commit was 49 days ago. It has 41 GitHub stars.

Mcp Google Cse

Name: Mcp Google Cse
Author: Richard-Weiss

@Richard-Weiss/mcp-google-cse · by Richard-Weiss

A Model Context Protocol server that provides search capabilities using a Google CSE (custom search engine).

41 1 tool GitHub npm PyPI

No known CVEs

Unlicense license

Maintained

Last commit 49d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

1 tool · ~114 tok

Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx

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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": {
    "mcp-google-cse": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@Richard-Weiss/mcp-google-cse"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Mcp Google Cse does

A Model Context Protocol server that provides search capabilities using a CSE (custom search engine). This server enables LLMs to provide a regular google search term and returns the found search results.

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Is Mcp Google Cse safe to use?: Mcp Google Cse 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 Unlicense.
How do I install Mcp Google Cse?: Mcp Google Cse 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 can Mcp Google Cse do?: Mcp Google Cse provides 1 tool: google_search. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Mcp Google Cse?: Mcp Google Cse is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Mcp Google Cse actively maintained?: Mcp Google Cse is recently maintained — last commit was 49 days ago. It has 41 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": {
    "mcp-google-cse": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@Richard-Weiss/mcp-google-cse"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Mcp Google Cse does

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

npx -y '@Richard-Weiss/mcp-google-cse' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

README

Google Custom Search Engine MCP Server

The tool only returns the results itself and not the content, the tool should be combined with other servers like mcp-server-fetch to extract the content from the search results. You may also combine it with other tools to enable some kind of "deep search" or tool chaining in general.

The free quota is 100 searches (1 tool call == 1 search) per day, if you don't want to set up billing and this is insufficient for your use case, you should consider using another server.

Available Tools

google_search - Searches the custom search engine using the search term and returns a list of results containing the title, link and snippet of each result.
- search_term (string, required): The search term to search for, equaling the query parameter q in the usual Google search.

Environment variables

API_KEY (required): The API key for the custom search engine.
ENGINE_ID (required): The engine ID for the custom search engine.
SERVICE_NAME (required/optional): The name of the service, leave empty if you haven't changed the name (customsearch).
COUNTRY_REGION (optional): Restricts search results to documents originating in a particular country. See Country Parameter Values for valid values.
GEOLOCATION (optional, default "us"): The geolocation of the end-user performing the search. See Geolocation Parameter Values for valid values.
RESULT_LANGUAGE (optional, default "lang_en"): The language of the search results. See CSE Query parameters, lr for valid values.
RESULT_NUM (optional, default 10): The number of search results to return. Range from 1-10.

CSE Setup

Creating a custom search engine is comparatively easy, completely free and can be done in under 5 minutes.

Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/ and create a new project. Call it "Claude CSE" for example.
Select the project and search for "Custom Search API" in the search bar.
Click on the search result and click on "Enable".
Click on the Credentials tab and create a new API key.
Go to https://programmablesearchengine.google.com to create a new custom search engine.
Create a new search engine and give it any name, the name doesn't correlate to SERVICE_NAME.
Select "Search the entire web" if you want a normal Google Search experience.
Click on "Create" and copy the engine id from the js code, or hit customize and get it from the overview.
You can optionally customize the search engine to your liking.

With the default quota, you will get 100 searches per day for free. A tool call only costs 1 search, even if you get 10 results for example.

Installation

Using uv (recommended)

When using uv no specific installation is needed. We will use uvx to directly run mcp-google-cse.

Using PIP

Alternatively you can install mcp-google-cse via pip:

pip install mcp-google-cse

After installation, you can run it as a script using:

python -m mcp-google-cse

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Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

83/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−17

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked @Richard-Weiss/mcp-google-cse against OSV.dev.

Inventory

Tools (1)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~114 tokens total

Community

Reviews

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Have you used this server?

Share your experience — it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Mcp Google Cse safe to use?: Mcp Google Cse 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 Unlicense.
How do I install Mcp Google Cse?: Mcp Google Cse 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 can Mcp Google Cse do?: Mcp Google Cse provides 1 tool: google_search. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Mcp Google Cse?: Mcp Google Cse is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Mcp Google Cse actively maintained?: Mcp Google Cse is recently maintained — last commit was 49 days ago. It has 41 GitHub stars.