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Search the Web using Google Custom Search API
LABSCO SUMMARY
Web results come back shaped by a search engine you configured, not by a general index.
There is one tool and its parameter list is the entire capability — query text, language restriction, safe search, ordering, paging and the site-restricted endpoint. What it can find is decided by how the Custom Search engine itself is set up, so scoping happens outside this server rather than in the call.
What it is
A single-tool server over the Google Custom Search API
What you get
- One search call whose parameters are the whole surface: q for the query, lr for language restriction, safe for safe search, sort for ordering, page and size for paging, and siteRestricted to use the restricted endpoint.
Requirements
A Google Custom Search engine for the server to query.
Setup effort
Add the configuration to your client
USE CASES
01
Looking something up on the web without leaving the client
Send the query with the language, safe-search, ordering and paging options the Custom Search API takes, and restrict it to the configured sites when that is what you want.
1 tool
Counted once with only startup setup. Other versions, modes or optional credentials may expose a different list.
BEFORE YOU INSTALL
What to know first
Tools you get
1 tool when we connected.
Requires
- npx on PATH
- A Google API key and a Programmable Search Engine ID (cx)
Where it runs
The documented client runs the server on your machine.
CONTEXT COST
Light Standing cost
Rated by the size of the one tool definition that rides along on every turn
INSTALLATION
Connect your client
MCP Clients
Any MCP client
ANY MCP CLIENT · JSON
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-pse-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"google-pse-mcp",
"https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch",
"<YOUR_API_KEY>",
"<YOUR_SEARCH_ENGINE_ID>"
]
}
}
}<YOUR_API_KEY> is your Google API key for the Custom Search JSON API, and <YOUR_SEARCH_ENGINE_ID> is the ID of your Programmable Search Engine (Google's overview: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview). An optional sixth argument, true or false, picks the Site Restricted endpoint; it defaults to true.
