A powerful MCP server extension providing web search and content extraction capabilities. Integrates DuckDuckGo search functionality and URL content extraction into your MCP environment, enabling AI assistants to search the web and extract webpage content programmatically.
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}web-scout-mcp is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by pinkpixel-dev. A powerful MCP server extension providing web search and content extraction capabilities. Integrates DuckDuckGo search functionality and URL content extraction into your MCP environment, enabling AI assistants to search the web and extract webpage content programmatically. It has 132 GitHub stars.
Yes. web-scout-mcp passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/pinkpixel-dev/web-scout-mcp" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
web-scout-mcp is primarily written in JavaScript. It is open-source under pinkpixel-dev on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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To install Web Scout for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @pinkpixel-dev/web-scout-mcp --client claude
npm install -g @pinkpixel/web-scout-mcp
npm install @pinkpixel/web-scout-mcp
After installing globally, run:
web-scout-mcp
Add this to your MCP client's config.json (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"web-scout": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pinkpixel/web-scout-mcp@latest"
]
}
}
}
Set the WEB_SCOUT_DISABLE_AUTOSTART=1 environment variable when embedding the package and calling createServer() yourself. By default running the published entrypoint (for example node dist/index.js or npx @pinkpixel/web-scout-mcp) automatically bootstraps the stdio transport.
The server provides the following MCP tools:
Initiates a web search query using the DuckDuckGo search engine and returns a well-structured list of findings.
Input:
query (string): The search query stringmaxResults (number, optional): Maximum number of results to return (default: 10)Example:
{
"query": "latest advancements in AI",
"maxResults": 5
}
Output: A formatted list of search results with titles, URLs, and snippets.
Fetches and extracts clean, readable content from web pages by removing unnecessary elements like scripts, styles, and navigation.
Input:
url: Either a single URL string or an array of URL stringsExample (single URL):
{
"url": "https://example.com/article"
}
Example (multiple URLs):
{
"url": [
"https://example.com/article1",
"https://example.com/article2"
]
}
Output: Extracted text content from the specified URL(s).
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/pinkpixel-dev/web-scout-mcp.git
cd web-scout-mcp
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Build
npm run build
# Run
npm start
For more detailed information about the project, check out these resources:
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.