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Web Researcher MCP

Search the web and primary sources, read pages behind your logins, verify citations. Runs locally.

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★ 77 stars Last pushed 2026-11-10 License: MIT

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Review any command before running it. Package names and URLs come from the server's own registry entry.

Package (oci)

docker run -i --rm -e GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE> -e BRAVE_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE> -e SERPER_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE> -e SEARCHAPI_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE> -e TAVILY_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE> -e EXA_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE> -e XQUIK_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE> -e COURTLISTENER_API_TOKEN=<YOUR_VALUE> -e FRED_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE> ghcr.io/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp:1.51.0

Or add to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-researcher-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "-e",
        "BRAVE_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "-e",
        "SERPER_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "-e",
        "SEARCHAPI_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "-e",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "-e",
        "EXA_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "-e",
        "XQUIK_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "-e",
        "COURTLISTENER_API_TOKEN=<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "-e",
        "FRED_API_KEY=<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "ghcr.io/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp:1.51.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY secret — Google Custom Search API key
GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID — Google Programmable Search Engine ID
SEARCH_PROVIDER — Search provider: google, brave, serper, searxng, searchapi, youcom, duckduckgo, tavily, exa, hackernews, reddit, bluesky, github, or xquik
SEARCH_ROUTING — Use multiple search engines with automatic switching if one goes down (e.g. brave,google,serper)
BRAVE_API_KEY secret — Brave Search API key
SERPER_API_KEY secret — Serper.dev API key
SEARCHAPI_API_KEY secret — SearchAPI.io API key
SEARXNG_URL — SearXNG instance URL
TAVILY_API_KEY secret — Tavily Search API key
EXA_API_KEY secret — Exa API key (neural/semantic web search provider)
XQUIK_API_KEY secret — Xquik API key (metered X/Twitter post search provider)
EDGAR_CONTACT_EMAIL — Contact email for SEC EDGAR (enables filing_search); falls back to OPENALEX_EMAIL
COURTLISTENER_API_TOKEN secret — CourtListener API token (legal_search works without it; a token raises the rate limit)
FRED_API_KEY secret — FRED API key (enables econ_search for Federal Reserve economic data)

Package (oci)

docker run -i --rm docker.io/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp:1.51.0

Or add to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-researcher-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp:1.51.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}