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Written for the Claude desktop app in late 2024, it ran Google searches, opened the result pages, lifted out their text, and saved screenshots along the way, keeping a running record of every source visited. The author described it as pre-alpha, and the repository has since been marked archived with no changes since December 2024 and no replacement named. Treat this as a historical entry: several web-research options are still actively maintained, and one of those is the safer choice today.

Archived · repository archived; last change December 2024, no successor named
Web/Research

Use This MCP server To

Research a topic and keep a list of sources visited Pull the readable text out of a page I found Capture a screenshot of a page while researching Bring today's news into a chat that cannot browse Follow a search thread across several pages at once

README

MCP Web Research Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for web research.

Bring real-time info into Claude and easily research any topic.

Features

  • Google search integration
  • Webpage content extraction
  • Research session tracking (list of visited pages, search queries, etc.)
  • Screenshot capture

Prerequisites

Installation

First, ensure you've downloaded and installed the Claude Desktop app and you have npm installed.

Next, add this entry to your claude_desktop_config.json (on Mac, found at ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webresearch": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@mzxrai/mcp-webresearch@latest"]
    }
  }
}

This config allows Claude Desktop to automatically start the web research MCP server when needed.

Usage

Simply start a chat with Claude and send a prompt that would benefit from web research. If you'd like a prebuilt prompt customized for deeper web research, you can use the agentic-research prompt that we provide through this package. Access that prompt in Claude Desktop by clicking the Paperclip icon in the chat input and then selecting Choose an integration → webresearch → agentic-research.

Example screenshot of web research

mcp-webresearch FAQ

Is this still maintained?
No. The repository is archived and its last change was in December 2024. The author never named a successor, so pick an actively maintained web-research option instead.
Which apps did it work in?
It was built specifically for the Claude desktop app and expects that app's settings file.
Did I need a paid key?
No. It searched through a browser it drove on your own machine, so there was nothing to sign up for.
Can I use this to research a topic and get sources?
In principle yes, since it tracked every search and page visited, but as archived pre-alpha code you should expect it to break.
How hard was setup?
You pasted a short block into the Claude desktop settings file. A recent version of Node had to be installed first.
Did it run on Windows?
Only macOS was confirmed working by the author. Linux and Windows were never verified.