Serper Search and Scrape MCP Server

A TypeScript-based MCP server that provides web search and webpage scraping capabilities using the Serper API. This server integrates with Claude Desktop to enable powerful web search and content extraction features.

Features

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- google_search - Perform web searches via Serper API
- Rich search results including organic results, knowledge graph, "people also ask", and related searches
- Supports region and language targeting
- Optional parameters for location, pagination, time filters, and autocorrection

- scrape - Extract content from web pages
- Get plain text and optional markdown content
- Includes JSON-LD and head metadata
- Preserves document structure

Requirements

- Node.js >= 18
- Serper API key (set as SERPER_API_KEY environment variable)

Development

Install dependencies:
``bash
npm install
`

Build the server:
`bash
npm run build
`

For development with auto-rebuild:
`bash
npm run watch
`

Run tests:
`bash
npm test # Run all tests
npm run test:watch # Run tests in watch mode
npm run test:coverage # Run tests with coverage
npm run test:integration # Run integration tests
`

Installation

To use with Claude Desktop, add the server config:

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

`json
{
"mcpServers": {
"serper-search": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"serper-search-scrape-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"SERPER_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}
}
}
}
`

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Create a .env file in the root directory:

`
SERPER_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
`

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Since MCP servers communicate over stdio, debugging can be challenging. We recommend using the MCP Inspector, which is available as a package script:

`bash
npm run inspector
``

The Inspector will provide a URL to access debugging tools in your browser.