io.github.zoharbabin/google-researcher
Quality Score
85
/100
MCP server providing Google Search, web scraping, and multi-source research tools for AI assistants
§01 Install
Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-researcher": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"google-researcher-mcp"
],
"env": {
"GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY": "<your-google_custom_search_api_key>",
"GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID": "<google_custom_search_id>"
}
}
}
}Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-researcher": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"google-researcher-mcp"
],
"env": {
"GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY": "<your-google_custom_search_api_key>",
"GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID": "<google_custom_search_id>"
}
}
}
}Cline (cline_mcp_settings.json)
npx -y google-researcher-mcp§02 Environment variables
GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEYrequiredsecret
Google Custom Search API key
GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_IDrequired
Google Programmable Search Engine ID
§03 MCP Quality Score · methodology
freshness
25
completeness
10
installability
25
documentation
15
stability
10
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