# iflow-mcp_pietz-mcp-web-tools

> A powerful MCP server to equip LLMs with web access, search, and content extraction capabilities

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## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/pietz/mcp-web-tools
- repository: https://github.com/pietz/mcp-web-tools
- version: 0.9.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: extraction, llm, mcp, pdf, search, web
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:iflow-mcp_pietz-mcp-web-tools

### Description (declared)

# MCP Web Tools

This package provides a powerful MCP server to equip LLMs with web access, going beyond naive methods of searching, fetching and extracting content.

## Introduction

I created this package out of the frustration that most MCP servers enabling web access to LLMs, didn't perform as well as I hoped. Some of these shortcomings I wanted fix, include:

- [x] Good search results without requiring an API key
- [x] Sophisticated fetching for more complex JavaScript sites
- [x] Extracting content in nicely formatted Markdown
- [x] Support for extracting content from PDFs
- [x] Support for loading and displaying images
- [x] Capture rendered webpage screenshots for visual context
- [x] Usage options for advanced cases like loading raw HTML

## Installation

### Claude Desktop

```json
```

### Claude Code

```bash
claude mcp add web-tools uvx mcp-web-tools
```

Or to also set the Brave Search API key:

```bash
claude mcp add web-tools uvx mcp-web-tools -e BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY=<key>
```

Provide a [Perplexity Search API](https://www.perplexity.ai/api-platform) key to prioritize their fresh, citation-rich index:

```bash
claude mcp add web-tools uvx mcp-web-tools -e PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=<key>
```

You can mix both environment variables to fall back from Perplexity to Brave seamlessly.

## Internals

The package is written in Python using powerful libraries and services under the hood to improve results.

### Searching

We use the [Perplexity Search API](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-the-perplexity-search-api) when a `PERPLEXITY_API_KEY` is configured. It delivers ranked snippets with citations from Perplexity's continuously refreshed index. If no Perplexity key is available, we fall back to the [Brave Search API](https://brave.com/search/api) (via `BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY`), then a lightweight Google workaround, and finally DuckDuckGo. While we recommend adding at least one API key, the chained fallbacks continue working for most workloads.

### Fe…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- documents.extraction (1, declared)
- research.web (1, declared)
- dev.package-management (0.825, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/iflow-mcp_pietz-mcp-web-tools/ (first seen 2026-09-09T20:25:04.860Z)

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