RivalSearchMCP MCP server

Deterministic research MCP server on FastMCP 3 — 5-engine web search, 9-platform social search, 6 academic DBs, news aggregation, entity profiles, conflict detection, document analysis. No API keys. No in-server LLM. Structured outputs for agent chaining.

What RivalSearchMCP does

Summarised from the project README; check the repository for the latest details.

Features

• 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

Requirements

• Remote server URL (no local install)

How to install RivalSearchMCP MCP in Claude Desktop, Cursor and VS Code

claude mcp add --transport http RivalSearchMCP https://RivalSearchMCP.fastmcp.app/mcp

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

{
  "servers": {
    "RivalSearchMCP": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://RivalSearchMCP.fastmcp.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add to config generator – combine it with other servers, or get the Windsurf format.

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