SearchClaw MCP Server

The complete web data pipeline for AI agents. Search, Extract, Crawl in One API.

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with 15 tools covering web search, scraping, extraction, crawling, and autonomous data gathering via the SearchClaw API.

Installation

npx searchclaw-mcp

Or install globally:

npm install -g searchclaw-mcp

Configuration

Get your API key from searchclaw.dev and add the server to your MCP client config.

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchclaw": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "searchclaw-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SEARCHCLAW_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add searchclaw -- npx -y searchclaw-mcp

Then set your API key in your environment:

export SEARCHCLAW_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json in your project:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchclaw": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "searchclaw-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SEARCHCLAW_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchclaw": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "searchclaw-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SEARCHCLAW_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Available Tools (15)

Search

| Tool | Description | Credits | |------|-------------|---------| | search | Web search — organic results | 1 | | search_ai | RAG-ready search with context and sources (primary tool for AI agents) | 2 | | news | Search recent news articles | 1 | | images | Search for images with metadata | 1 | | suggest | Autocomplete / query suggestions | 1 |

Extract & Scrape

| Tool | Description | Credits | |------|-------------|---------| | extract | Extract structured data from a URL using a JSON schema | 5 | | markdown | Convert any URL to clean markdown | 2 | | screenshot | Capture a full-page screenshot of a URL | 2 |

Crawl

| Tool | Description | Credits | |------|-------------|---------| | crawl | Async bulk crawl with optional structured extraction | 1/page | | job_status | Check status of an async crawl job | 0 | | map | Discover all URLs on a domain (sitemap alternative) | 2 |

Pipeline & Agents

| Tool | Description | Credits | |------|-------------|---------| | pipeline | Search + extract in one call — the killer feature for RAG pipelines | 3+ | | browse | Interactive browser actions (click, type, scroll) | 5 | | agent | Autonomous data gathering from natural language prompts | variable |

Utility

| Tool | Description | Credits | |------|-------------|---------| | usage | Check your remaining API credits | 0 |

Why SearchClaw?

| Feature | SearchClaw | Firecrawl | Tavily | |---------|-----------|-----------|--------| | Web search | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | AI search (RAG) | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Extract with schema | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | | Crawl | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | | Pipeline (search + extract) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | Autonomous agent | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | Browser actions | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | News & image search | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Screenshot | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | | MCP server | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Free tier | ✅ 500 credits/mo | ❌ | ✅ 1000 credits/mo |

Get started at searchclaw.dev.

License

MIT