Web search MCP servers: give Claude and Cursor live search

MCP servers for web search, page fetching and crawling, from API-based search to self-hosted SearXNG, with data from GitHub.

Search APIs

Hosted search services; they usually need an API key from the provider.

• exa-mcp-server (5,131 GitHub stars · TypeScript · last pushed 2026-10-07)
  Exa MCP for web search and web crawling! Install config available on its page.
• anysearch-mcp-server (1,867 GitHub stars · last pushed 2026-09-17)
  Unified real-time search MCP server supporting general web search, vertical domain search, parallel batch search, and full-page URL content extraction.

Self-hosted / private search

Built on SearXNG, a metasearch engine you run yourself.

• mcp-searxng (1,303 GitHub stars · TypeScript · last pushed 2026-10-13)
  Private web search for AI assistants via SearXNG — supports Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client Install config available on its page.
• searxNcrawl (167 GitHub stars · Python · last pushed 2026-10-14)
  MCP server and CLI tools for web search and crawling, built on SearXNG and Crawl4AI

Fetch, scrape and crawl

• Fetch (official) (Official reference server · last pushed 2026-10-13)
  Web content fetching and conversion for efficient LLM usage. Install config available on its page.
• firecrawl-mcp-server (7,607 GitHub stars · JavaScript · last pushed 2026-10-15)
  🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.
• crw (1,131 GitHub stars · Rust · last pushed 2026-10-14)
  Fast, lightweight Firecrawl/Tavily alternative in Rust. Web scraper, crawler & search API with MCP server for AI agents. Drop-in Firecrawl-compatible API (/scrape, /crawl, /search). 2.3x faster than Tavily, 1.5x faster than Firecrawl in 1K-URL benchmarks. 6 MB RAM, single binary. Self-host or use managed cloud.
• mcp-read-website-fast (162 GitHub stars · TypeScript · last pushed 2026-09-29)
  Quickly reads webpages and converts to markdown for fast, token efficient web scraping
• brightdata-mcp (2,677 GitHub stars · JavaScript · last pushed 2026-10-14)
  A powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides an all-in-one solution for public web access. Install config available on its page.
• apify-mcp-server (11,279 GitHub stars · TypeScript · last pushed 2026-10-14)
  The Apify MCP server enables your AI agents to extract data from social media, search engines, maps, e-commerce sites, or any other website using thousands of ready-made scrapers, crawlers, and automation tools available on the Apify Store.

Search vs fetch

A search server finds pages for a query; a fetch server reads one URL you already have and turns it into text. Many people install one of each. More: best web scraping servers · Web Search & Scraping.

About this list

Data: public GitHub repositories, refreshed 2026-10-15. Star counts change daily. A listing is not a security review, so read our security checklist before installing.