Enhanced Google Search MCP Server

⚠️ EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

This is an experimental Google search MCP server that uses web scraping techniques. Please be aware of the following:

• Rate Limiting: Google may block or rate-limit requests from this server

• Reliability: Search results may be inconsistent due to Google's anti-scraping measures

🔍 RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

For production use, we strongly recommend using official search APIs or established MCP servers:

• DuckDuckGo MCP Servers: More reliable and ToS-compliant alternatives

• Bing Search API: Microsoft's official search API with MCP integration

• Google Custom Search API: Google's official search API (requires API key)

• SearXNG MCP: Privacy-focused meta-search engine integration

Use this experimental server only if you understand the risks and limitations.

A powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides enhanced Google search capabilities with advanced anonymization and anti-detection features.

Features

🔍 Enhanced Search Capabilities

• Advanced Query Support: Handle complex search queries with quotes, operators, and filters

• Configurable Results: Limit results (1-10), set language, region, safe search, and time range

• Multiple Parsing Strategies: Robust result extraction with fallback mechanisms

🛡️ Advanced Anonymization

• Realistic Browser Fingerprinting: Rotating user agents that mimic real browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)

• Dynamic Headers: Randomized Accept-Language, Accept-Encoding, and security headers

• Session Randomization: Unique session IDs and request fingerprints

• Request Timing: Random delays to avoid detection patterns

🚀 Reliability Features

• Smart Retry Logic: Exponential backoff with jitter for failed requests

• Rate Limit Handling: Automatic detection and graceful handling of rate limits

• Error Recovery: Comprehensive error handling with user-friendly messages

• Timeout Management: Configurable timeouts with proper error reporting

🔧 Technical Improvements

• Multiple Result Selectors: Adapts to Google's changing HTML structure

• URL Cleaning: Proper handling of Google's redirect URLs

• Content Validation: Ensures all results have valid URLs and content

• Comprehensive Logging: Detailed logging for debugging and monitoring

Related MCP server: searchAPI-mcp

Installation

Installing via Smithery

To install google-search-mcp for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

Manual Installation

Usage

Development Mode

Start the server in development mode with interactive CLI:

Production Mode

Start the server for production use:

Testing

Run the comprehensive test suite:

For continuous testing during development:

MCP Tool: search

The server provides a single, powerful search tool with the following parameters:

Parameters

• query (required): Search query to execute

• limit (optional): Maximum number of results (1-10, default: 5)

• language (optional): Language code (e.g., 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'de', 'ja')

• region (optional): Region code (e.g., 'us', 'uk', 'ca', 'au')

• safeSearch (optional): Filter level ('off', 'moderate', 'strict')

• timeRange (optional): Time filter ('hour', 'day', 'week', 'month', 'year')

Example Usage

Configuration with Claude Desktop

Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop MCP settings:

Architecture

Core Components

1. UserAgentGenerator: Creates realistic browser fingerprints

2. RequestAnonymizer: Handles request anonymization and timing

3. SearchParameterBuilder: Constructs optimized search parameters

4. ResultParser: Robust HTML parsing with multiple strategies

Anti-Detection Features

• Browser Fingerprint Rotation: Cycles through realistic user agents

• Header Randomization: Varies request headers to avoid patterns

• Timing Randomization: Adds random delays between requests

• Session Management: Generates unique session identifiers

• Parameter Variation: Adds random search parameters

Error Handling

The server provides comprehensive error handling for:

• Rate limiting by Google

• Network timeouts and connectivity issues

• Access denied/blocked requests

• Invalid or empty responses

• Parsing failures with fallback strategies

Development

Project Structure

Code Quality

The project includes:

• TypeScript: Full type safety and IntelliSense support

• ESLint: Code linting with TypeScript rules

• Prettier: Consistent code formatting

• Vitest: Fast and reliable testing framework

Scripts

• npm run build: Compile TypeScript to JavaScript

• npm run start: Start the server in production mode

• npm run dev: Start in development mode with CLI

• npm run test: Run the test suite

• npm run test:watch: Run tests in watch mode

• npm run lint: Check code quality and types

• npm run format: Format code with Prettier

Testing

The test suite covers:

• Basic search functionality

• Parameter validation and handling

• Language and region filtering

• Safe search and time range filters

• Complex query handling

• Error scenarios and edge cases

• URL validation and result formatting

All tests use real Google search requests to ensure functionality works in practice.

Contributing

1. Fork the repository

2. Create a feature branch

3. Make your changes with tests

4. Run npm run lint and npm run test

5. Submit a pull request

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.