How do I install web-search-mcp?

Its README did not state an install command plainly enough for us to quote one, so we do not guess. The repository has the instructions: https://github.com/mrkrsl/web-search-mcp

Is web-search-mcp official and is it maintained?

We found nothing naming it as a vendor’s official server. Its repository has 1,182 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is stale. Its last commit we recorded was on 2025-08-08.

What licence does web-search-mcp use?

The repository declares the MIT licence.

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web-search-mcp

web-search-mcp is an MCP server, listed under search. Its repository has 1,182 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-10-22.

This software provides a locally hosted Web Search MCP server for integrating with local Language Model Servers.

Install

MCP servers are packaged differently from each other -- some run via npx, some as a Docker image, some as a plain script you clone and run. web-search-mcp’s own README did not state one plainly enough for this page to quote it rather than guess, so it will not guess. The repository below states it.

Read web-search-mcp’s own install instructions ↗

What it reaches, and what it needs

Reaches

○ not recognised

Credential

○ none found

Maintenance

Stars

1182

State

stale

Licence

MIT

From the repository

A simple, locally hosted Web Search MCP server for use with Local LLMs

View on GitHub ↗2026-10-22

What web-search-mcp can do

3 tools documented in its README. An AI client calls these by name.

full-web-search: The most comprehensive web search tool that performs a web search (tries Bing, then Brave, then DuckDuckGo if needed) and fetches full page content from each result URL with concurrent processing.
get-web-search-summaries: A lightweight alternative for quick search results that returns only search result snippets/descriptions (no content extraction).
get-single-web-page-content: A utility tool for extracting content from a specific webpage by following the URL and removing navigation, ads, and other non-content elements.

Read from the README; names are kept only if the README contains them.

web-search-mcp compared with similar servers

web-search-mcp compared with the closest alternatives, by services reached, credentials, stars, last update and licence
Server	Reaches	Needs	Stars	Last update	Licence
web-search-mcp (this page)	—	None listed	1,182	2025-08-08	MIT
anysearch-mcp-server	anysearch	ANYSEARCH_API_KEY	2,052	2026-09-17	Apache-2.0
duckduckgo-mcp-server	—	None listed	1,550	2026-09-04	MIT
mcp-omnisearch	exa, github, tavily	EXA_API_KEY, TAVILY_API_KEY	357	2026-10-23	MIT
search1api-mcp	search1api	SEARCH1API_KEY	173	2026-10-24	NOASSERTION
ReActMCP	exa, openai	EXA_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY	143	2026-07-22	MIT

Ranked by services in common with web-search-mcp, then by stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.

Common questions about web-search-mcp

What does web-search-mcp do?: This software provides a locally hosted Web Search MCP server for integrating with local Language Model Servers.
How do I install web-search-mcp?: Its README did not state an install command plainly enough for us to quote one, so we do not guess. The repository has the instructions: https://github.com/mrkrsl/web-search-mcp
Is web-search-mcp official and is it maintained?: We found nothing naming it as a vendor’s official server. Its repository has 1,182 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is stale. Its last commit we recorded was on 2025-08-08.
What licence does web-search-mcp use?: The repository declares the MIT licence.

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