Web Scout MCP Server
About
A powerful MCP server extension providing web search and content extraction capabilities. Integrates DuckDuckGo search functionality and URL content extraction into your MCP environment, enabling AI assistants to search the web and extract webpage content programmatically.
Details
- Transport
- SSE
- License
- MIT license
Explore
- 🔍 DuckDuckGo Search: Fast and privacy-focused web search capability
- 📄 Content Extraction: Clean, readable text extraction from web pages
- 🚀 Parallel Processing: Support for extracting content from multiple URLs simultaneously
- 💾 Memory Optimization: Smart memory management to prevent application crashes
- ⏱️ Rate Limiting: Intelligent request throttling to avoid API blocks
- 🛡️ Error Handling: Robust error handling for reliable operation
Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
Web Scout MCP ServerCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
To install Web Scout for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @pinkpixel-dev/web-scout-mcp --client claude
npm install -g @pinkpixel/web-scout-mcp
npm install @pinkpixel/web-scout-mcp
Set the WEB_SCOUT_DISABLE_AUTOSTART=1 environment variable when embedding the package and calling createServer() yourself. By default running the published entrypoint (for example node dist/index.js or npx @pinkpixel/web-scout-mcp) automatically bootstraps the stdio transport.
npm install
DuckDuckGoWebSearch
Initiates a web search query using the DuckDuckGo search engine and returns a well-structured list of findings. Input the keywords, question, or topic you want to search for using DuckDuckGo as your query. Input the maximum number of search entries you'd like to receive using maxResults - defaults to 10 if not provided.
UrlContentExtractor
Fetches and extracts content from a given webpage URL. Input the URL of the webpage you want to extract content from as a string using the url parameter. You can also input an array of URLs to fetch content from multiple pages at once.
The server provides the following MCP tools:
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"web scout mcp server": {
"web-scout-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@smithery/cli",
"install",
"@pinkpixel-dev/web-scout-mcp",
"--client",
"claude"
]
}
}
}
}McpServers
{
"web-scout-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@smithery/cli",
"install",
"@pinkpixel-dev/web-scout-mcp",
"--client",
"claude"
]
}
}With MCP Clients
Add this to your MCP client's config.json (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"web-scout": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pinkpixel/web-scout-mcp@latest"
]
}
}
}
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