Serper MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server that provides Google Search via Serper. This server enables LLMs to get search result information from Google.

Available Tools

• google_search - Set all the parameters
• google_search_images - Set all the parameters
• google_search_videos - Set all the parameters
• google_search_places - Set all the parameters
• google_search_maps - Set all the parameters
• google_search_reviews - Set all the parameters
• google_search_news - Set all the parameters
• google_search_shopping - Set all the parameters
• google_search_lens - Set all the parameters
• google_search_scholar - Set all the parameters
• google_search_parents - Set all the parameters
• google_search_autocomplete - Set all the parameters
• webpage_scrape - Set all the parameters

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: json { "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. txt serper-mcp-server

2. Install the dependencies. shell pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Add the configuration for you client: json { "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. bash pip install serper-mcp-server # or pip3 install serper-mcp-server

2. MCP client code configuration or Claude settings, add serper mcp server: json { "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>

License

serper-mcp-server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.