Web Research
About
Enables web browsing capabilities through Google searches and webpage content extraction using Playwright for browser automation and Turndown for HTML-to-Markdown conversion.
Details
- Author
- chuanmingliu
- Repository
- chuanmingliu/mcp-webresearch
- GitHub stars
- 10
- License
- MIT License
- Categories
- Productivity, Developer Tools, Design, AI, Search, Knowledge Base, Frontend
- Tags
- #web
Jump to
- Google search integration
- Webpage content extraction
- Research session tracking (list of visited pages, search queries, etc.)
- Screenshot capture
Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
Web ResearchCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)npxArguments-
Argument 1
-y -
Argument 2
@mzxrai/mcp-webresearch@latest
Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
-
Argument 1
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
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.
pnpm install
search_google
Performs Google searches and extracts results. Arguments: { query: string }
visit_page
Visits a webpage and extracts its content. Arguments: { url: string, takeScreenshot?: boolean }
take_screenshot
Takes a screenshot of the current page. No arguments required.
1. search_google
- Performs Google searches and extracts results
- Arguments: { query: string }
2. visit_page
- Visits a webpage and extracts its content
- Arguments: { url: string, takeScreenshot?: boolean }
3. take_screenshot
- Takes a screenshot of the current page
- No arguments required
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"web research": {
"cwd": "string (optional)",
"env": {},
"args": [
"-y",
"@mzxrai/mcp-webresearch@latest"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "npx"
}
}
}Linux
{
"cwd": "string (optional)",
"env": [],
"args": [
"-y",
"@mzxrai/mcp-webresearch@latest"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "npx"
}Macos
{
"cwd": "string (optional)",
"env": [],
"args": [
"-y",
"@mzxrai/mcp-webresearch@latest"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "npx"
}Windows
{
"cwd": "string (optional)",
"env": [],
"args": [
"/c",
"npx",
"-y",
"@mzxrai/mcp-webresearch@latest"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "cmd"
}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
- Node.js >= 18 (includes npm and npx)
- Claude Desktop app
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.
Tools
1. search_google
- Performs Google searches and extracts results
- Arguments: { query: string }
2. visit_page
- Visits a webpage and extracts its content
- Arguments: { url: string, takeScreenshot?: boolean }
3. take_screenshot
- Takes a screenshot of the current page
- No arguments required
Prompts
agentic-research
A guided research prompt that helps Claude conduct thorough web research. The prompt instructs Claude to:
- Start with broad searches to understand the topic landscape
- Prioritize high-quality, authoritative sources
- Iteratively refine the research direction based on findings
- Keep you informed and let you guide the research interactively
- Always cite sources with URLs
Resources
We expose two things as MCP resources: (1) captured webpage screenshots, and (2) the research session.
Screenshots
When you take a screenshot, it's saved as an MCP resource. You can access captured screenshots in Claude Desktop via the Paperclip icon.
Research Session
The server maintains a research session that includes:
- Search queries
- Visited pages
- Extracted content
- Screenshots
- Timestamps
Suggestions
For the best results, if you choose not to use the agentic-research prompt when doing your research, it may be helpful to suggest high-quality sources for Claude to use when researching general topics. For example, you could prompt news today from reuters or AP instead of news today.
Problems
This is very much pre-alpha code. And it is also AIGC, so expect bugs.
If you run into issues, it may be helpful to check Claude Desktop's MCP logs:
tail -n 20 -f ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp*.log
Development
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