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
- Author
- pinkpixel-dev
- GitHub stars
- 129
- Downloads
- 804
- Categories
- Web Scraping, Search, Other
Jump to
- DuckDuckGo search with privacy‑focused results
- Clean text extraction from web pages
- Parallel processing of multiple URLs simultaneously
- Smart memory management to prevent crashes
- Rate limiting to avoid API blocks
- 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
Install globally (npm install -g @pinkpixel/web-scout-mcp) and run the web-scout-mcp command, or add the package to your MCP client’s config.json with npx -y @pinkpixel/web-scout-mcp@latest. Set WEB_SCOUT_DISABLE_AUTOSTART=1 if embedding the package programmatically.
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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