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One Search MCP

One Search MCP is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Web search, URL discovery, scraping & extraction with agent-browser and search providers. It has 147 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y one-search-mcp.

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Install One Search MCP

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "one-search-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "one-search-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "YDC_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env SEARCH_API_KEY=your-value --env YDC_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio one-search-mcp -- npx -y one-search-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "one-search-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "one-search-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "YDC_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "search_api_key",
      "description": "SEARCH_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "ydc_api_key",
      "description": "YDC_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "one-search-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "one-search-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH_API_KEY": "${input:search_api_key}",
        "YDC_API_KEY": "${input:ydc_api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
SEARCH_PROVIDERNoSearch provider to use (searxng, duckduckgo, bing, tavily, google, zhipu, exa, bocha, ydc, local)
SEARCH_API_URLNoAPI URL for SearXNG (required if using searxng provider), or Google Custom Search Engine ID for google
SEARCH_API_KEYsecretNoAPI key for search provider (required for tavily, bing, google, zhipu, exa, bocha)
YDC_API_KEYsecretNoYou.com API key for ydc provider
ALLOW_PRIVATE_NETWORKNoAllow browser-backed tools to access private, loopback, and link-local network targets when set to true

About One Search MCP

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that integrates with multiple search providers for web search, local browser search, URL discovery, and scraping capabilities with agent-browser.

  • mcp-server
  • modelcontextprotocol
  • bing-mcp
  • duckduckgo-mcp
  • searxng-mcp
  • tavily-mcp
  • agent-browser
  • google-search-mcp

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How do I install the One Search MCP MCP server?

Add the command npx -y one-search-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is One Search MCP free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (SEARCH_API_KEY and YDC_API_KEY) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is One Search MCP actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Jul 31, 2026. The latest release is v1.2.4, published Jul 31, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.