Search & Research MCP Servers
Search & Research category — 386 MCP servers, ranked by GitHub stars.
Obsidian Hybrid Search
Search Obsidian vaults with hybrid full-text, fuzzy, semantic, and graph retrieval.
needle-mcp
Production-ready RAG out of the box to search and retrieve data from your own documents.
Tendem MCP server
Delegate tasks to vetted human experts - research, writing, analysis, and data work.
doc-scraper
Crawl documentation sites into local corpora agents can search, read, and diff fully offline.
loci
Cross-session memory and hybrid RAG over your notes and docs. Local-first, with cited answers.
openai-websearch-mcp
This is a Python-based MCP server that provides OpenAI `web_search` built-in tool.
octagon-deep-research-mcp
Lightning-Fast, High-Accuracy Deep Research Agent
Lumen
Self-hostable agentic-AI LMS: catalog, RAG tutor, FSRS reviews, AI authoring, ingest.
duckduckgo-mcp-server
This is a TypeScript-based MCP server that provides DuckDuckGo search functionality.
mcp-wolframalpha
An MCP server lets AI assistants use the Wolfram Alpha API for real-time access to computational knowledge and data.
naver-search-mcp
MCP server for Naver Search API integration, supporting blog, news, shopping search and DataLab analytics features.
Free Search
No-API-key web search, page fetching and document reading across many engines. Local-first.
Enzyme
Semantic search and pattern discovery for Obsidian and markdown vaults.
pdfmux
PDF-to-Markdown extraction that audits its own output and flags any extractor's silent drops.
mcp_zoomeye
Querying network asset information by ZoomEye MCP Server
Patsnap Patent & Literature Search
Search 200M+ patents and 216M+ scientific papers using natural language and structured filters.
bing-search-mcp
Web search capabilities using Microsoft Bing Search API
mcp-hn
An MCP server to search Hacker News, get top stories, and more.
DispatchSEO
Open-source SEO manager for coding agents: keyword research, content PRs, rank + Search Console.
reflex
Local full-text code search for AI coding agents. Trigram-indexed, sub-100ms queries across large codebases, offline, 18 languages.
linkedapi-mcp
MCP server that lets AI assistants control LinkedIn accounts and retrieve real-time data.
minirag-mcp
Local-first RAG MCP server: hybrid search over a folder of your own documents
job-searchoor
An MCP server for searching job listings with filters for date, keywords, remote work options, and more.
Web Researcher MCP
Your AI research assistant that cites real sources and stays honest
mcp-domain-availability
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables Claude Desktop to check domain availability across 50+ TLDs. Features DNS/WHOIS…
webpage-screenshot-mcp
A MCP server for taking screenshots of webpages to use as feedback during UI developement.
lilbee
Runs and manages its own local models, or uses your existing Ollama or LM Studio if you prefer. Indexes your files and code, crawls the…
webfetch
Self-hosted web search for LLM agents: search -> fetch -> rank pipeline with semantic caching
FutureSearch MCP Server
AI forecasting for your AI: probabilities, dates, and numbers with a public track record.
research-hub
Research workspace for Zotero + Obsidian + NotebookLM. Search, ingest, sync, verify briefs.
Memory-Plus
a lightweight, local RAG memory store to record, retrieve, update, delete, and visualize persistent "memories" across sessions—perfect for…
DocsMint
Cloud or self-hosted knowledge for AI agents: hybrid search, reranking, GraphRAG, scoped MCP tools.
mcp-searxng-enhanced
An enhanced MCP server for SearXNG web searching, utilizing a category-aware web-search, web-scraping, and includes a date/time retrieval…
sifter
Structure any document, query it like a database. Open-source extraction engine that turns any document into typed, schema-defined…
OmniSeek
Your agent seeks what search can't find. A self-hosted perception MCP server.
mcp-server-tavily
Tavily AI search API
Simmer
Trade prediction markets with AI agents — skill discovery, autoresearch, and execution.
siGit
MCP server for siGit (sigit.si): browse repos, search code, manage PRs/issues, web search.
CN Scraper MCP
MCP server for AI agents to search major Chinese internet platforms with local-first login support.
mcp-server-webcrawl
Advanced search and retrieval for web crawler data. Supports WARC, wget, Katana, SiteOne, and InterroBot crawlers.
mcp-servers-kagi
Kagi search API integration
Zoteus
Zotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.
WebScraping.AI
Web scraping tools with Chromium JS rendering, rotating proxies, and AI question answering.
dappier-mcp
Enable fast, free real-time web search and access premium data from trusted media brands—news, financial markets, sports, entertainment,…
Social Media Intelligence MCP
Cross-platform social media intelligence. Trend volume and growth signals. Free key at trendsmcp.ai
kagi-ken-mcp
Work with Kagi *without* API access (you'll need to be a customer, tho). Searches and summarizes. Uses Kagi session token for easy…
Robinhood Portfolio Research
Read-only research tools for Robinhood portfolio data
trip2g
Serve a folder of Markdown notes as an MCP server: hybrid search, reading, and sourced answers.
baseline-mcp-server
MCP server that searches Baseline status using Web Platform API
AIRAS
Automated AI research toolkit: hypothesis generation, experiments, and paper writing
newsmcp
Real-time world news for AI agents. 50+ regions, topic filtering. Free, no API key.
Markdown Vault MCP
Generic markdown vault MCP with hybrid search
Vibe Prospecting
B2B company and contact data for lead lists, enrichment, research, and outreach. OAuth sign-in.
youtube_mcp
MCP server that transcribes YouTube videos to text. Uses yt-dlp to download audio and OpenAI's Whisper-1 for more precise transcription…
gemini-mcp
Model Context Protocol server for Google Gemini AI with chat, research, and grounding
iFlow Search
MCP server for iFlow Search web search, image search, and URL fetch tools.
mcp-server
RAG MCP for your [Agentset](https://agentset.ai/) data.
mcp-server-dumplingai
Access data, web scraping, and document conversion APIs by [Dumpling AI](https://www.dumplingai.com/)
vectara-mcp
An MCP server for accessing Vectara's trusted RAG-as-a-service platform.
unsplash-mcp
Unsplash photo search with proper attribution. Returns ready-to-use attribution text and HTML for each photo, making it easy for LLMs to…