SearchForge MCP Server

Name: SearchForge MCP Server
Author: io.github.divyanshu-iitian

io.github.divyanshu-iitian/searchforge

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What is the SearchForge MCP server?

Free open-source web search and page reading for LLMs, AI agents, and RAG.

How to install SearchForge

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL
Optional URL of a self-hosted SearXNG instance
GITHUB_TOKEN
secret
Optional GitHub token for higher public API quotas
CROSSREF_MAILTO
Optional email address for Crossref polite-pool routing
BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY
secret
Optional Brave Search API key

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchforge": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/divyanshu-iitian/searchforge-mcp:0.2.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL": "<YOUR_SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "CROSSREF_MAILTO": "<YOUR_CROSSREF_MAILTO>",
        "BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchforge": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/divyanshu-iitian/searchforge-mcp:0.2.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL": "<YOUR_SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "CROSSREF_MAILTO": "<YOUR_CROSSREF_MAILTO>",
        "BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchforge": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/divyanshu-iitian/searchforge-mcp:0.2.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL": "<YOUR_SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "CROSSREF_MAILTO": "<YOUR_CROSSREF_MAILTO>",
        "BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "searchforge": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/divyanshu-iitian/searchforge-mcp:0.2.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL": "<YOUR_SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "CROSSREF_MAILTO": "<YOUR_CROSSREF_MAILTO>",
        "BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add searchforge --env SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL=<YOUR_SEARCHFORGE_SEARXNG_URL> --env GITHUB_TOKEN=<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN> --env CROSSREF_MAILTO=<YOUR_CROSSREF_MAILTO> --env BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY=<YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY> -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/divyanshu-iitian/searchforge-mcp:0.2.0