What is free-web-search-ultimate?
free-web-search-ultimate is a MCP server by wd041216-bit that web search across DuckDuckGo, Bing, Google, Brave, Wikipedia, arXiv, YouTube and Reddit with deep page browsing. Instructs LLMs to search before answering. It is listed under Browser & web and has 19 GitHub stars.
| Type | Mcp server |
|---|---|
| Author | wd041216-bit |
| Repository | wd041216-bit/free-web-search-ultimate |
| Popularity | 19 GitHub stars |
| Category | Browser & web |
| Security | Low risk (96/100) |
| Rank | #1,345 of 4,418 MCP servers; #127 in Browser & web |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-09-21 |
| Runs | Locally |
| Language | Python |
Is free-web-search-ultimate safe to install?
free-web-search-ultimate scores 96/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. No checks raised a concern. It passed 5 of 6 checks.
MCP server results come from listing signals: who publishes it, where your data goes and what it can do. The code itself is not scanned yet.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Community-built server | Note |
| Runs on your machine only | Pass |
| No credentials mentioned | Pass |
| Read-only by description | Pass |
| No code execution | Pass |
| Source on GitHub | Pass |
How do I install free-web-search-ultimate?
- Find the launch command. The README says how the server starts (npx, uvx, docker or a remote URL) and which API keys it needs.
https://github.com/wd041216-bit/free-web-search-ultimate
- Add it to Claude Code. Replace the part after -- with the command from the README. Remote servers use --transport http with a URL.
claude mcp add free-web-search-ultimate -- <command from README> claude mcp add --transport http free-web-search-ultimate <server-url>
- Check it connected. This lists your MCP servers and their status.
claude mcp list
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs free-web-search-ultimate for you:
Add the "free-web-search-ultimate" MCP server from https://github.com/wd041216-bit/free-web-search-ultimate to Claude Code. Read its README for the launch command and any API keys I need, run claude mcp add, then check that it connects.