SCOUTS-AI MCP Server

MCP web_search tool

The official scouts-ai-mcp package exposes SCOUTS-AI as one Model Context Protocol tool named web_search. It requires no signup, no API key and no CAPTCHA, and returns the same JSON shape as the HTTP API.

A hosted MCP endpoint is available at https://scouts-ai.com/mcp — point any streamable-HTTP MCP host at that URL to skip the local install.

Remote (no install)

Connect a streamable-HTTP MCP host to:

https://scouts-ai.com/mcp

Example server.json entry:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scouts-ai": {
      "url": "https://scouts-ai.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

No API key, no CAPTCHA, no pip install, no extra process to manage.

Local install

pip install scouts-ai-mcp
scouts-ai-mcp

Package: pypi.org/project/scouts-ai-mcp.

Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scouts-ai": {
      "command": "scouts-ai-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Local HTTP transport

scouts-ai-mcp --transport http --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8765

Use HTTP mode when your host prefers a local MCP HTTP endpoint.

Tool contract

Parameter	Default	Description
`query`	required	Search query, 1–512 characters.
`lang`	`en`	Result-language hint.
`page`	`1`	Page number, 1–10.

Use web_search for user-requested web lookups, citations, source discovery and freshness checks.

Works with MCP hosts

The server is designed for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Open WebUI, Continue, Cline and other MCP-compatible hosts. Use the remote URL https://scouts-ai.com/mcp when the host speaks streamable HTTP, otherwise run scouts-ai-mcp locally over stdio.

Need raw HTTP instead? See the Search API overview.