Is RivalSearchMCP safe to use?

RivalSearchMCP 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 RivalSearchMCP?

RivalSearchMCP 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 RivalSearchMCP do?

RivalSearchMCP provides 10 tools: web_search, social_search, news_aggregation, github_search, map_website and 5 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with RivalSearchMCP?

RivalSearchMCP is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and http transport.

Is RivalSearchMCP actively maintained?

RivalSearchMCP is actively maintained — last commit was 10 days ago. It has 92 GitHub stars.

RivalSearchMCP

Name: RivalSearchMCP
Author: damionrashford

by damionrashford

Deep Research & Competitor Analysis MCP for Claude & Cursor. No API Keys. Features: Web Search, Social Media (Reddit/HN), Trends & OCR.

92 10 tools GitHub

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 10d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, http

10 tools · ~740 tok

Grade B · 0.4% 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, http · Node 18+

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "RivalSearchMCP": {
      "url": "https://RivalSearchMCP.fastmcp.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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What RivalSearchMCP does

Advanced MCP server for web research, content discovery, social media analysis, and AI-powered research.

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Is RivalSearchMCP safe to use?: RivalSearchMCP 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 RivalSearchMCP?: RivalSearchMCP 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 RivalSearchMCP do?: RivalSearchMCP provides 10 tools: web_search, social_search, news_aggregation, github_search, map_website and 5 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with RivalSearchMCP?: RivalSearchMCP is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and http transport.
Is RivalSearchMCP actively maintained?: RivalSearchMCP is actively maintained — last commit was 10 days ago. It has 92 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, http · Node 18+

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "RivalSearchMCP": {
      "url": "https://RivalSearchMCP.fastmcp.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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What RivalSearchMCP does

Advanced MCP server for web research, content discovery, social media analysis, and AI-powered research.

Test This Server

No automated test available for this server. Check the GitHub README for setup instructions.

README

RivalSearchMCP

Deterministic research MCP server — web + social + academic + news + code + docs, all in one place. No API keys, no in-server LLM, structured outputs for agent chaining.

🆓 100% Free & Open Source — No API keys or subscriptions for core tools. The hosted server includes fair-use rate limiting.

What It Does

RivalSearchMCP is a FastMCP 3.x server exposing 9 specialized tools that search, fetch, score, and compare information across:

5 web search engines (DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yahoo, Mojeek, Wikipedia) — concurrent, deduplicated, with TLS-fingerprint-safe fetches via Scrapling
9 social platforms (Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, Medium, Product Hunt, Bluesky, Lobste.rs, Lemmy) — no authentication
5 news sources (Google News, Bing News, The Guardian, GDELT, DuckDuckGo News) — with time-range filtering
5 academic databases (OpenAlex, CrossRef, arXiv, PubMed, Europe PMC) + 4 dataset hubs (Kaggle, HuggingFace, Dataverse, Zenodo)
GitHub repositories with built-in rate limiting
Documents (PDF, Word, text, images) with OCR for images
Website traversal with research, docs, and mapping modes

No LLM runs inside the server. Every tool returns deterministic, auditable output — the caller's model does the synthesis. Tools that benefit from structured output (content_operations score, find_conflicts) return ToolResult with both a human-readable markdown rendering and a parseable structuredContent dict, so agents can chain tool outputs without regex-parsing prose.

✅ Why It's Useful

One connection, nine tools — no need to wire up separate MCP servers per source
Auto-quality scoring — every result carries a tier/freshness/corroboration/citation score (0-100) and every multi-result response carries an aggregate confidence signal
Conflict detection — content_operations find_conflicts surfaces numeric, date, and polarity disagreements across sources as a first-class signal instead of averaging them away
Entity profiles — research_topic(mode="entity") fans out to 8 sources in parallel and returns a unified report with confidence
Production hygiene — per-tool timeouts, rate limiting (100 req/min/session), response-size caps, error masking, middleware-level observability

💡 Example Query

Once connected, try asking your AI assistant:

"Use RivalSearchMCP to research FastAPI vs Django. Run research_topic on both, aggregate recent news, check Reddit and Hacker News discussions, search GitHub for activity, look for academic papers, score the top sources, and flag any conflicts between them."

📦 How to Get Started

RivalSearchMCP runs as a remote MCP server hosted on FastMCP. Just follow the steps below to install, and go.

Connect to Live Server

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

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

Score breakdown

69/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−31

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

No package registry to scan.

Inventory

Tools (10)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~740 tokens total

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

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 RivalSearchMCP safe to use?: RivalSearchMCP 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 RivalSearchMCP?: RivalSearchMCP 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 RivalSearchMCP do?: RivalSearchMCP provides 10 tools: web_search, social_search, news_aggregation, github_search, map_website and 5 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with RivalSearchMCP?: RivalSearchMCP is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and http transport.
Is RivalSearchMCP actively maintained?: RivalSearchMCP is actively maintained — last commit was 10 days ago. It has 92 GitHub stars.