Serper MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server that provides Google Search via Serper. This server enables LLMs to get search result information from Google.

Available Tools

• google_search - Get the result of the search.
  • Required arguments:
    • q (string): The query to search for
  • Optional arguments:
    • gl (string): The country to search in, e.g. us, uk, ca, au, etc.
    • location (string): The location to search in, e.g. San Francisco, CA, USA
    • hl (string): The language to search in, e.g. en, es, fr, de, etc.
    • tbs (string): The time period to search in, e.g. d, w, m, y
    • num (integer): The number of results to return, max is 100 (default: 10)
    • page (integer): The page number to return, first page is 1 (default: 1)

Usage

Using uv (recommended)

1. Make sure you had installed uv on your os system.

2. In your MCP client code configuration or Claude settings (file claude_desktop_config.json) add serper mcp server:

   {
       "mcpServers": {
           "serper": {
               "command": "uvx",
               "args": ["serper-mcp-server"],
               "env": {
                   "SERPER_API_KEY": "<Your Serper API key>"
               }
           }
       }
   }
   

   uv will download mcp server automatically using uvx from pypi.org and apply to your MCP client.

Using pip for project

1. Add serper-mcp-server to your MCP client code requirements.txt file.

   serper-mcp-server
   

2. Install the dependencies.

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Add the configuration for you client:

   {
       "mcpServers": {
           "serper": {
               "command": "python3",
               "args": ["-m", "serper_mcp_server"],
               "env": {
                   "SERPER_API_KEY": "<Your Serper API key>"
               }
           }
       }
   }
   

Using pip for globally usage

1. Make sure the pip or pip3 is in your os system.

   pip install serper-mcp-server
   # or
   pip3 install serper-mcp-server
   

2. MCP client code configuration or Claude settings, add serper mcp server:

   {
       "mcpServers": {
           "serper": {
               "command": "python3",
               "args": ["serper-mcp-server"],
               "env": {
                   "SERPER_API_KEY": "<Your Serper API key>"
               }
           }
       }
   }
   

Debugging

You can use the MCP inspector to debug the server. For uvx installations:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx serper-mcp-server

Or if you’ve installed the package in a specific directory or are developing on it:

cd path/to/servers/src/serper
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run serper-mcp-server

License

serper-mcp-server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.