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Department Web-Search MCP Gateway

Item: Department Web-Search MCP Gateway
Rating: 74
Author: M8ven

A self-hosted web-search gateway that reuses a single logged-in browser session to handle intranet/SSO logins once, providing web_search and read_webpage tools for any MCP client.

→ yangsheng6810/web-search-mcp · listed on glama

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Source: Glama

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// key findings

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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

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: GATEWAY_TOKEN

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

// environment variables

To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.

configALLOWED_HOSTS=search.internal,localhost # hostnames clients will use

configBING_BASE_URL

configBROWSER_MODE.env () — the code is identical, only config differs.

configBROWSER_PROFILE_DIRthe window. The session is persisted to (default ./.profile)

configCDP_ENDPOINT=http://127.0.0.1:9222 (the tunneled port, local on this server)

🔐 secretGATEWAY_TOKEN=... (optional; else rely on network ACL)

configHEADLESStrue false only for debugging

configHOST0.0.0.0 bind address. 127.0.0.1 = localhost-only (+auto DNS-rebinding protection)

configLOGIN_START_URL

configMAX_CONCURRENT_PAGES4 concurrency cap (one Chrome, isolated tabs)

configPAGE_TIMEOUT_MS20000 per-page hard timeout

configRESULT_COUNT10 results per query

configSEARCH_ENGINEbing bing (tuned extractor) / google / duck / custom

configSEARCH_URL_TEMPLATEcustom URL with {q} placeholder, e.g. https://wiki.internal/search?q={q} (overrides engine URL)

configSEARXNG_URLSearXNG (if set) — public-search fallback when browser returns nothing

configSTORAGE_STATE_FILE./auth.json, run npm start. Linux runs its own headless

Deployment configuration, supplied by whoever hosts the server. Users are not asked for these.

deployPORT

// quality suggestions

Dependencies

11 dependencies, 1 flagged: playwright-core

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

2/2 tools missing one or more hints — web_search (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); read_webpage (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint). OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

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commit: 38142b25b76fabaee261f1ee25d952c09964444a

code hash: b597f700a44017e072ad6003e0a3569013b64227b3721d7df64c314a37ea1e09

verified: 8/19/2026, 9:16:10 AM

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