Kindly Web Search MCP Server is a content-quality-focused search MCP service: specialized API integrations deliver full StackExchange, GitHub Issues/Discussions, Wikipedia and arXiv content to the model in one call, while a headless Chromium browser parses other pages in real time, with multiple search providers and proxy support. It suits users who want less scraping round-tripping and better AI coding context, but it requires a local browser and at least one search key, and its remote HTTP mode is unauthenticated and unencrypted by default, so deployment needs extra protection.
Kindly Web Search MCP Server is part of the Shelpuk AI Technology Consulting agentic suite and provides web search plus robust content retrieval for AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, etc.) and AI agents (Claude Desktop, OpenClaw, Hermes, etc.). Rather than returning only titles, links and snippets, it retrieves the full conversation — questions, answers, comments, reactions and metadata — and integrates directly with the StackExchange, GitHub Issues, GitHub Discussions, Wikipedia and arXiv APIs, while any other URL is parsed in real time with a local headless Chromium browser. Search supports Serper, SerpBase, Tavily, SearXNG, Sofya and You.com with priority-based fallback. It targets AI coding and agent workflows that want usable context in a single call instead of an extra scraping round trip.
1) Install uvx (curl script on macOS/Linux, PowerShell script on Windows). 2) Install a Chromium-based browser (Chrome/Chromium/Edge/Brave) for page_content extraction; specialized sources still work without it. 3) Set at least one search provider key: SERPER_API_KEY, SERPBASE_API_KEY, TAVILY_API_KEY, SEARXNG_BASE_URL, SOFYA_API_KEY or YDC_API_KEY. 4) A read-only GITHUB_TOKEN is highly recommended for better GitHub Issue extraction. 5) Configure your MCP client with the run command: uvx --from git+https://github.com/Shelpuk-AI-Technology-Consulting/kindly-web-search-mcp-server kindly-web-search-mcp-server start-mcp-server. The first run may take 30-60 seconds to build the environment; prewarm it in a terminal if your client times out.
{
"mcpServers": {
"kindly-web-search": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"--from",
"git+https://github.com/Shelpuk-AI-Technology-Consulting/kindly-web-search-mcp-server",
"kindly-web-search-mcp-server",
"start-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"SERPER_API_KEY": "${SERPER_API_KEY}",
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "${TAVILY_API_KEY}",
"SEARXNG_BASE_URL": "${SEARXNG_BASE_URL}",
"GITHUB_TOKEN": "${GITHUB_TOKEN}",
"KINDLY_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE_PATH": "${KINDLY_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE_PATH}"
}
}
}
}