web-researcher-mcp
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;
medical journals, court databases, news outlets, academic papers.
Analyze the full source, not just snippets. Links that work, citations you can trust,
no made up closed garden pre-synthesized results.
Get started in 30 seconds
macOS (Homebrew):
brew install zoharbabin/tap/web-researcher-mcp
macOS / Linux (no package manager):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp/main/install.sh | sh
Windows (PowerShell):
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcp/main/install.ps1 | iex"
That's it — no dev tools needed. Downloads the binary, verifies its checksum, puts it on your PATH, and registers it with Claude Code automatically.
Your AI can now search the web, read full articles, find academic papers, look up patents, and run multi-step research — only from sources you pick.
Why does this exist?
Perplexity gets its citations wrong over a third of the time. It links to papers that don't exist, invents DOIs, and presents SEO spam with the same confidence as peer-reviewed research. ChatGPT's web search isn't much better — it can't tell a blog post from a court filing.
If your work gets cited, published, submitted to a court, or shown to a client — you can't afford "probably real" sources.
This tool fixes the root cause: instead of searching the entire web and hoping, you tell your AI exactly which sources to search. We call these "search lenses" — curated lists of trusted sites for each field.
| What you get | What that means for you |
|---|
| Search lenses — choose your sources by field | Your AI only sees the sites you trust (PubMed, SEC.gov, arXiv — not random blogs) |
| Research tools for every source type | Papers, patents, news, web pages, images, full-text reading, and multi-step deep research |
| Always has a backup | Multiple search engines working together — if one has issues, the others pick up automatically |
| Reads full articles | Doesn't just give you snippets — extracts and reads entire pages, PDFs, Word docs, even YouTube transcripts |
| Real citations, formatted | Every source comes with a proper APA/MLA citation and a link that actually works |
| Your queries stay private | Runs on your machine — nobody sees what you're researching. Not us, not anyone. |
| Paper trail | Every search is logged so you can reproduce your research process months later |
Works with Claude, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any AI assistant that supports tool use.
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