# powersearch-mcp

> PowerSearch MCP helps AI agents search and retrieve content from the public web with fewer broken fetches and clean, AI-friendly outputs ready to cite.

Record `powersearch-mcp` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/powersearch-mcp/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/powersearch-mcp
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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/powersearch-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/theobjectivedad/powersearch-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/theobjectivedad/powersearch-mcp/releases
- version: 0.4.0
- license: Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004 http://www.apache.org/…
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agents, mcp, retrieval, scraping, search, web
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:powersearch-mcp

### Description (declared)

# PowerSearch MCP

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![Project status](https://img.shields.io/pypi/status/powersearch-mcp?label=Status)
![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/theobjectivedad/powersearch-mcp?label=License)
![Python Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/powersearch-mcp?label=Python)
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PowerSearch MCP helps AI agents search and retrieve content from the public web with fewer broken fetches and clean, AI-friendly outputs ready to cite.

## TL;DR

**Step 1**: Clone the repository then run initialize the virtual environment:

```shell
git clone https://github.com/theobjectivedad/powersearch-mcp.git
```

**Step 2**: Initialize the virtual environment:

```shell
cd powersearch-mcp
make init
```

**Step 3**: Activate the virtual environment:

```shell
source .venv/bin/activate
```

**Step 4**: Create a `.env` file with your desired configuration, use `example-configs/example.env` as a starting point.

```shell
cp example-configs/example.env .env
```

**Step 5**: (Optional) run a local instance of SearXNG:

```shell
docker run -d \
    --name searxng-local \
    --pull=always \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    -p 127.0.0.1:9876:8080 \
    --tmpfs /etc/searxng:rw,noexec,nosuid,size=16m \
    --tmpfs /tmp:rw,noexec,nosuid,size=512m \
    --cap-drop=ALL \
    --security-opt=no-new-privileges:true \
    --health-cmd='python3 -c "import urllib.request; urllib.request.urlopen(\"http://127.0.0.1:8080/\", timeout=3).read(1)"' \
    --health-interval=10s \
    --health-timeout=3s \
    --health-retri…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.version-control (1, derived)
- data.web-scraping (1, declared)
- research.web (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/powersearch-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T10:23:43.400Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/powersearch-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/powersearch-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:powersearch-mcp