# Aas-ee/open-webSearch

Multi-engine MCP server, CLI, and local daemon for agent web search and content retrieval — skill-guided workflows, no API keys.

Repository: https://github.com/Aas-ee/open-webSearch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/open-websearch
Homepage: https://open-web-search.vercel.app/mcp
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-24T04:08:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 79/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 81, longevity 31
- inputs: {"age_days": 439, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 125, "gap_med": 16.0, "n_releases_24m": 9}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1747, forks 185 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:30.623847+00:00)

## What it is
Open-WebSearch is a TypeScript tool providing an MCP server, CLI, and local daemon for multi-engine web search and content retrieval without requiring API keys. It aggregates results from engines like Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, and Baidu, and can fetch article content from pages like CSDN and GitHub READMEs.

## Use cases
- search the web from an AI agent without API keys
- add web search to Claude Desktop or Cursor via MCP
- scrape search results from Bing or DuckDuckGo in scripts
- fetch article content from URLs for LLM context
- run a local HTTP search service for automation
- give coding agents live web retrieval capabilities

## When to choose
- you need keyless web search integrated into MCP clients or agent workflows
- you want a CLI or local daemon for scripted search and page fetching
- you need multi-engine coverage including Chinese sources like Baidu and CSDN

## When to avoid
- you need a compliant official search API with guaranteed terms of service
- you require high-volume production scraping with rate-limit guarantees
- you need advanced search features like semantic ranking or filters

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, web-scraping, mcp, cli, http-server
- domain: developer-tools, artificial-intelligence
- platform: cli, cross-platform, self-hosted
- tags: mcp-server, no-api-keys, multi-engine-search, web-content-fetching, local-daemon, agent-tools, search, ai-agents, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- Aas-ee/open-webSearch (main) score 79

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.623847+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:29:01.470050+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Aas-ee/open-webSearch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.623847+00:00, sha 10c55aa523c2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.