mcp-web-tools

Item: mcp-web-tools
Rating: 74
Author: M8ven

Provides web search and content extraction tools for AI assistants, with zero configuration and swappable backends.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 3 credentials: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY, GITHUB_TOKEN, TAVILY_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretFIRECRAWL_API_KEY— claude mcp add mcp-web-tools -e =fc-your-key -- npx -y mcp-web-tools

configFIRECRAWL_URL— claude mcp add mcp-web-tools -e SEARXNG_URL=http://localhost:8080 -e =http://localhost:3002 -- npx -y mcp-web-tools

🔐 secretGITHUB_TOKEN

configSEARXNG_URL— Search (WEBTOOLS_SEARCH_PROVIDER): defaults to searxng — uses a [public SearXNG instance](https://search.mdosch.de). Override with tavily, or point at your own instance.

🔐 secretTAVILY_API_KEY— claude mcp add mcp-web-tools -e WEBTOOLS_SEARCH_PROVIDER=tavily -e =your-key -- npx -y mcp-web-tools

configWEBTOOLS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES— No 100 Maximum cache entries before LRU eviction (0 disables caching)

configWEBTOOLS_CACHE_SWEEP_INTERVAL_MS— No 300000 Interval in ms to sweep expired entries (0 disables periodic sweep)

configWEBTOOLS_CACHE_TTL— No 3600 Cache TTL in seconds (0 disables)

configWEBTOOLS_DEBUG— No — Set to any value to enable debug logging to stderr

configWEBTOOLS_EXTRACT_PROVIDER— Extract (): defaults to firecrawl keyless — no API key needed. Override with tavily, or set to none to disable web_read.

configWEBTOOLS_MAX_RESULTS— No 5 Default number of results (must be 1–20)

configWEBTOOLS_SEARCH_DEPTH— No basic Default search depth

configWEBTOOLS_SEARCH_PROVIDER— Search (): defaults to searxng — uses a [public SearXNG instance](https://search.mdosch.de). Override with tavily, or point SEARXNG_URL at your own instance.

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commit: 5f3e1d209f27716831822fd6a0aebe80e5084dd7

code hash: 8ddcf4a4e12c08486e764aeaccf221790a43041f94d7dce97c652abc36963657

verified: 7/22/2026, 8:45:22 AM

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