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Serper MCP Server gives LLMs Google Search results - web, images, videos, news, maps, shopping, and more - via Serper.

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Gary Meng
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Source checked Sep 19, 2026
Version 0.0.10
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Why it matters

Integrate comprehensive Google search capabilities into your applications. This asset allows LLMs to access web content, images, videos, news, and more via the Serper API.

Outcomes

What it gets done

01

Perform standard Google web searches and image, video, and news searches.

02

Scrape and parse content directly from web pages.

03

Leverage Google Scholar and Patents for academic and patent research.

04

Enable location-based searches using Google Maps and Places.

Install

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Run in your project directory:

curl -fsSL https://spark.entire.vc/get/vb-serper | bash

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Capabilities

Tools your agent gets

google_search

Performs standard Google web search

google_search_images

Search images on Google Images

google_search_videos

Search videos on Google

google_search_places

Search places and locations on Google

google_search_maps

Search Google Maps for location data

google_search_reviews

Search reviews and ratings

google_search_news

Search news on Google News

google_search_shopping

Search products on Google Shopping

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Overview

Serper MCP Server

Serper MCP Server wraps the Serper API to give LLMs real Google search results across web, image, video, news, maps, shopping, scholar, and patent search, plus a webpage-scrape tool. Use it when an assistant needs current, real search results from Google rather than answering from static training data.

What it does

Server MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol server that provides Google Search via Serper, letting LLMs retrieve real Google search result information instead of relying on their own training data. It covers a wide range of search surfaces beyond plain web search: images, videos, places, maps, reviews, news, shopping, lens (visual search), scholar, patents, and autocomplete suggestions, plus a webpage-scrape tool for pulling content from a specific URL.

When to use - and when NOT to

Use this when an assistant needs current, real search results from Google - fact-checking against live web content, finding recent news, checking product listings or prices, looking up a place on maps, or scraping a specific page's content - rather than answering from static training data. It is a thin wrapper over the Serper API, so it depends on a valid SERPER_API_KEY and Serper's own rate limits and pricing; it does not perform any analysis of the results itself, only retrieval.

Inputs and outputs

Twelve search tools are exposed, each accepting the parameters documented in the project's schema file: google_search, google_search_images, google_search_videos, google_search_places, google_search_maps, google_search_reviews, google_search_news, google_search_shopping, google_search_lens, google_search_scholar, google_search_patents, and google_search_autocomplete, alongside a webpage_scrape tool for extracting content from a given URL.

Integrations

Requires Python 3.11+ and a Serper API key, configured as SERPER_API_KEY. Installable via Smithery for Claude Desktop, via uv (recommended, downloading the package automatically through uvx serper-mcp-server), or via pip either as a project dependency (python3 -m serper_mcp_server) or global install (python3 serper-mcp-server). Debugging is done through the MCP Inspector, either against the published uvx package or a locally cloned and run copy via uv run serper-mcp-server.

The project publishes both PyPI download badges and version badges, and offers three separate installation paths depending on how the calling client manages Python dependencies - a project-local requirements.txt entry, a global pip/pip3 install, or the uv-managed uvx path - so the same MCP server config shape can be adapted to whichever dependency-management convention a given client or team already uses. The project is licensed under the MIT License.

Who it's for

Developers and AI assistants that need real, current Google search results - across web, image, video, news, shopping, maps, scholar, or patent search - rather than relying on a model's static knowledge, and anyone building research or monitoring workflows that depend on fresh SERP data rather than a snapshot from training time.

npx -y @smithery/cli install @garylab/serper-mcp-server --client claude
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A Model Context Protocol server that provides Google Search via Serper. This server enables LLMs to get search result information from Google.

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Usage

Installing via Smithery

To install Serper MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @garylab/serper-mcp-server --client claude

Using uv (recommended)

  1. Make sure you had installed uv on your os system.

  2. In your MCP client code configuration or Claude settings (file claude_desktop_config.json) add serper mcp server:

    {
    "mcpServers": {
        "serper": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": ["serper-mcp-server"],
            "env": {
                "SERPER_API_KEY": "<Your Serper API key>"
            }
        }
    }
}

    uv will download mcp server automatically using uvx from pypi.org and apply to your MCP client.

Using pip for project

  1. Add serper-mcp-server to your MCP client code requirements.txt file.

    serper-mcp-server

  2. Install the dependencies.

    pip install -r requirements.txt

  3. Add the configuration for you client:

    {
    "mcpServers": {
        "serper": {
            "command": "python3",
            "args": ["-m", "serper_mcp_server"],
            "env": {
                "SERPER_API_KEY": "<Your Serper API key>"
            }
        }
    }
}

Using pip for globally usage

  1. Make sure the pip or pip3 is in your os system.

    pip install serper-mcp-server
# or
pip3 install serper-mcp-server

  2. MCP client code configuration or Claude settings, add serper mcp server:

    {
    "mcpServers": {
        "serper": {
            "command": "python3",
            "args": ["serper-mcp-server"],
            "env": {
                "SERPER_API_KEY": "<Your Serper API key>"
            }
        }
    }
}

Debugging

You can use the MCP inspector to debug the server. For uvx installations:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx serper-mcp-server

Or if you've installed the package in a specific directory or are developing on it:

git clone https://github.com/garylab/serper-mcp-server.git
cd serper-mcp-server
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run serper-mcp-server -e SERPER_API_KEY=<the key>

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