zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp

Overview

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

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.

How to use

Tools exposed

• web_search
• scrape_page
• search_and_scrape
• image_search
• news_search
• academic_search
• citation_graph
• patent_search
• filing_search
• legal_search
• econ_search
• clinical_search
• awesome_list_search
• local_search
• brand_research
• verify_citation
• audit_bibliography
• verify_recommendation
• archive_source
• structured_search

Tested with

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

Notes

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.

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

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.

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).

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