Baidu Search
About
Provides web search capabilities through Baidu's search engine, enabling retrieval of search results and webpage content with robust error handling and content parsing.
Details
- Author
- evilran
- Repository
- Evilran/baidu-mcp-server
- GitHub stars
- 3
- Downloads
- 5,585
- License
- MIT License
- Categories
- Search, Knowledge Base, Other, AI, Design, Developer Tools, Infrastructure, Frontend
- Tags
- #web-research, #web
Jump to
- Web Search: Search Baidu with advanced rate limiting and result formatting
- Content Fetching: Retrieve and parse webpage content with intelligent text extraction
- Rate Limiting: Built-in protection against rate limits for both search and content fetching
- Error Handling: Comprehensive error handling and logging
- LLM-Friendly Output: Results formatted specifically for large language model consumption
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
Baidu SearchCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)uvxArguments-
Argument 1
baidu-mcp-server
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
To install Baidu Search Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @Evilran/baidu-mcp-server --client claude
Install directly from PyPI using uv:
uv pip install baidu-mcp-server
1. Download Claude Desktop
2. Create or edit your Claude Desktop configuration:
- On macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
- On Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
Add the following configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"baidu-search": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["baidu-mcp-server"]
}
}
}
3. Restart Claude Desktop
mcp install server.py
```
search
Performs a web search on Baidu and returns formatted results. Parameters: query (string), max_results (optional integer, default: 10)
fetch_content
Fetches and parses content from a webpage. Parameters: url (string)
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"baidu search": {
"cwd": "string",
"env": {},
"args": [
"baidu-mcp-server"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}Linux
{
"cwd": "string",
"env": [],
"args": [
"baidu-mcp-server"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "uvx"
}Macos
{
"cwd": "string",
"env": [],
"args": [
"baidu-mcp-server"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "uvx"
}Windows
{
"cwd": "string",
"env": [],
"args": [
"baidu-mcp-server"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "uvx"
}Baidu Search MCP Server
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search capabilities through Baidu, with additional features for content fetching and parsing.
<a href="https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/@Evilran/baidu-mcp-server">
</a>
Features
- Web Search: Search Baidu with advanced rate limiting and result formatting
- Content Fetching: Retrieve and parse webpage content with intelligent text extraction
- Rate Limiting: Built-in protection against rate limits for both search and content fetching
- Error Handling: Comprehensive error handling and logging
- LLM-Friendly Output: Results formatted specifically for large language model consumption
Installation
Installing via Smithery
To install Baidu Search Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @Evilran/baidu-mcp-server --client claude
Installing via uv
Install directly from PyPI using uv:
uv pip install baidu-mcp-server
Usage
Running with Claude Desktop
1. Download Claude Desktop
2. Create or edit your Claude Desktop configuration:
- On macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
- On Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
Add the following configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"baidu-search": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["baidu-mcp-server"]
}
}
}
3. Restart Claude Desktop
Development
For local development, you can use the MCP CLI:
```bash
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