Free Search

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add free-search-mcp -e SEARCH_MCP_PROXY=... -e SEARCH_MCP_REGION=... -e SEARCH_MCP_CACHE_DIR=... -- uvx free-search-mcp

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "free-search-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "free-search-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH_MCP_PROXY": "...",
        "SEARCH_MCP_REGION": "...",
        "SEARCH_MCP_CACHE_DIR": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

No-API-key web search, page fetching and document reading across many engines. Local-first.

Questions

Free Search is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package free-search-mcp.

Run: claude mcp add free-search-mcp -e SEARCH_MCP_PROXY=... -e SEARCH_MCP_REGION=... -e SEARCH_MCP_CACHE_DIR=... -- uvx free-search-mcp

Run: codex mcp add free-search-mcp --env SEARCH_MCP_PROXY=... --env SEARCH_MCP_REGION=... --env SEARCH_MCP_CACHE_DIR=... -- uvx free-search-mcp

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