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zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp

Name: zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp
Author: Various

Your AI research assistant that cites real sources and stays honest. Search the entire web or narrow it down to just the sites you trust. Works with Claude, Cursor, any MCP client.

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About zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp

zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp is a Go-based MCP server that lets AI agents search the web and cite real sources. It can search the entire web or restrict results to user-specified trusted sites. It works with any MCP client including Claude and Cursor.

Best for

Developers building MCP-integrated AI assistants that require verifiable web search results.

Use cases

Enable AI coding assistants to find current documentation or examples from the web.
Give AI agents the ability to fact-check claims against a curated set of trusted websites.
Provide AI-powered research in chat interfaces without hallucinated citations.

Notes

14 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-06-01. Licensed MIT.

Pros

Open source and lightweight Go implementation.
Allows whitelisting specific domains for trustworthy results.
Compatible with multiple MCP clients out of the box.

Cons

Small community and limited adoption (14 stars).
Go language dependency may be unfamiliar for some developers.
No built-in caching or rate-limiting (must be handled externally).

Key facts

What we have checked

Not checked yet. Dated facts such as prices, releases and repository activity appear here once we have confirmed them from a source.

How to use

How to set it up

As the listing publishes it. We have not run this install.

Tools exposed

web_search
scrape_page
search_and_scrape
image_search
news_search
academic_search
paper_fulltext
citation_graph
patent_search
filing_search
legal_search
econ_search
clinical_search
monarch_search
awesome_list_search
local_search
brand_research
company_recon
verify_citation
audit_bibliography

Clients the listing names (not checked here)

Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Continue, VS Code, ChatGPT

Install

Add zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp to your client

Not verified yet

Our lab has not run this server yet. "Config checked" on a client means the recipe matches that client's documented config format; it does not mean we ran it.

Claude Code

Config checked

Run in your terminal (runs on your computer)

claude mcp add --transport stdio zoharbabin-web-researcher-mcp -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp:1.50.3

Version 1.50.3 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Claude Code's config docs

Claude Desktop

Config checked

Add to claude_desktop_config.json (runs on your computer)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zoharbabin-web-researcher-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp:1.50.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Version 1.50.3 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Claude Desktop's config docs

Cursor

Config checked

Add to .cursor/mcp.json (runs on your computer)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zoharbabin-web-researcher-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp:1.50.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Version 1.50.3 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Cursor's config docs

VS Code

Config checked

Add to .vscode/mcp.json (runs on your computer)

{
  "servers": {
    "zoharbabin-web-researcher-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp:1.50.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Version 1.50.3 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against VS Code's config docs

Codex

Config checked

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml (runs on your computer)

[mcp_servers.zoharbabin-web-researcher-mcp]
command = "docker"
args = ["run", "-i", "--rm", "ghcr.io/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp:1.50.3"]

Version 1.50.3 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Codex's config docs

ChatGPT: ChatGPT connects only to remote servers that need no API key.

Recipes come from the server's entry in the official MCP registry. Check the package name before you run it, and keep keys out of shared files.

Works with

What zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp connects to

5 clients, each with how we know and when we checked.

Works with	Type	How we know	Checked
Claude Code	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRuns locally, version 1.50.3Config checked	24 Oct 2026Claude Code docs
Claude Desktop	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRuns locally, version 1.50.3Config checked	24 Oct 2026Claude Desktop docs
Cursor	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRuns locally, version 1.50.3Config checked	24 Oct 2026Cursor docs
VS Code	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRuns locally, version 1.50.3Config checked	24 Oct 2026VS Code docs
Codex	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRuns locally, version 1.50.3Config checked	24 Oct 2026Codex docs

Alternatives

Alternatives to zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp

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exa-labs/exa-mcp-serverThis is an alternative to it	MCP server	Named in the listing	Not dated
firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-serverThis is an alternative to it	MCP server	Named in the listing	Not dated

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Sources

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Changelog

What changed

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