searchLABSCO SUMMARY
The reason to reach for Baidu specifically is coverage of the Chinese web that Western engines index thinly.
It is a search-and-read pair rather than a research agent: you get results, then you fetch the ones worth reading, and the redirect-cleaning step matters because Baidu's raw result links are otherwise unusable downstream. The throttles are the thing to plan around — 30 searches and 20 fetches per minute, queued rather than dropped, so a wide crawl will simply wait.
What it is
A Python server with two tools: search runs a Baidu query and returns formatted results, fetch_content retrieves a page and extracts its readable text.
What you get
- search — Baidu results as titles, URLs and snippets, with max_results defaulting to 10
- fetch_content — a webpage reduced to clean text, with the boilerplate stripped
- Baidu redirect URLs resolved, so the links you get back point at the real pages
- Ads and irrelevant blocks removed before the results reach the model
- Built-in rate limiting with queueing: 30 search requests per minute, 20 content fetches per minute
Requirements
Nothing to authorize — no account, no key. Published to PyPI as baidu-mcp-server and launched with uvx.
Setup effort
Add the configuration to your client
USE CASES
01
Researching a topic that is mostly written up in Chinese
Query Baidu, read the snippets, and pull the full text of the two or three pages worth reading.
02
Checking a claim against Chinese-language sources
Search, then fetch the source page rather than trusting the snippet.
03
Reading one page you already have the URL for
Skip the search and fetch the text directly, cleaned of navigation and ads.
2 tools
Listed in project docs. Your client may show a different list.
fetch_contentBEFORE YOU INSTALL
What to know first
Tools you get
2 tools named in the project's documentation.
Requires
uvx on PATH
Where it runs
The documented client runs the server on your machine.
INSTALLATION
Connect your client
MCP Clients
Claude Desktop — uvx
CLAUDE DESKTOP — UVX · JSON
{
"mcpServers": {
"baidu-search": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"baidu-mcp-server"
]
}
}
}
