primerLABSCO SUMMARY
Reader and Search in one small package.
It wraps Jina's Reader and Search endpoints — clean text out of a URL, screenshots, dates and concurrent reads — in a single server. The repository is archived, so the successor its author names is worth looking at before you install this one.
What it is
A lightweight client for Jina.AI's Reader and Search APIs, covering page extraction, screenshots, publication-date detection, and web, ArXiv and image search. The repository is archived and its author points to webskim as the successor.
What you get
- A URL's content extracted as clean text, with filtering and extraction options
- A screenshot of a webpage captured
- A page's publication date detected from the page itself
- Several URLs read concurrently in one call
- Web search with advanced filtering, ArXiv paper search and image search, plus a concurrent multi-search
- A server status and system information call
Requirements
Node with npm install and npm run build, plus a Jina API key in JINA_API_KEY — free keys are issued at jina.ai/api. Jina bills the reads and searches on its own terms.
Setup effort
Build from source — clone the repository, then follow the project's own run instructions
USE CASES
01
Getting the text of a page without the furniture
Jina's Reader returns the content, not the navigation and the cookie banner around it.
02
Processing a list of URLs
Read them concurrently in one call rather than paying a round trip for each.
03
Telling how old a page really is
Publication date detected from the page, for when the content does not say and the ranking implies it is current.
04
Capturing what a page looked like
A screenshot alongside the text, for a record of the rendered page rather than its markup.
9 tools
Listed in project docs. Your client may show a different list.
read_urlcapture_screenshot_urlguess_datetime_urlparallel_read_urlsearch_websearch_arxivsearch_imagesparallel_search_webBEFORE YOU INSTALL
What to know first
Tools you get
9 tools named in the project's documentation.
Requires
- npm on PATH
- JINA_API_KEY in your environment
Where it runs
The documented client runs the server on your machine.
INSTALLATION
Connect your client
Server setup
TERMINAL
npm startMCP Clients
Claude Desktop
CLAUDE DESKTOP · JSON
{
"mcpServers": {
"jina-mcp-local": {
"command": "npm",
"args": [
"start"
],
"cwd": "<YOUR_PATH_TO_JINA_MCP_SERVER>",
"env": {
"JINA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_JINA_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}
