assafelovic/gpt-researcher

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

GPT Researcher is an open-source autonomous deep research agent that plans research questions, scrapes web and local sources, and produces detailed cited research reports using any LLM provider. It is available as a Python package, Docker image, web app, and MCP server, with parallelized planner/execution agents for speed and reliability.

Use cases

• generate deep research reports with citations on any topic
• automate market research and competitor analysis
• build a custom domain-specific research agent
• run an MCP research server for Claude or other LLM clients
• research company briefs, stock analysis, or trend reports
• aggregate and summarize information from multiple web sources automatically

When to choose

• you need long, factual, cited research reports rather than short LLM answers
• you want an open-source alternative to closed deep-research products
• you need to plug research capabilities into your app via Python or MCP
• you want to customize research agents for specific domains or sources

When to avoid

• you need a simple chatbot without web research
• you cannot incur LLM API costs, since each task consumes tokens
• you need fully deterministic, verifiable outputs without LLM hallucination risk
• you want a lightweight tool without web scraping infrastructure

Facets

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agent-framework rag web-scraping search-engine llm-inference mcp sdk artificial-intelligence large-language-models python self-hosted cross-platform deep-research autonomous-agent research-reports multi-agent citations open-source ai-agents retrieval-augmented-generation natural-language-processing automation research docker web-server

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