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google-researcher MCP Server

MCP server providing Google Search, web scraping, and multi-source research tools for AI assistants

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

Status

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Connect

Published as google-researcher-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

Orphan detection fails when spawned via npx — all three health checks defeated by intermediate npm process

Summary

Orphaned google-researcher-mcp processes spin at 100% CPU indefinitely after the parent MCP client (Claude Code) exits. The health check introduced in v6.2.0-v6.2.3 does not detect the orphan state when the server is launched via npx (which interposes an npm wrapper process between the MCP client and the node worker).

Environment

  • google-researcher-mcp 6.2.3 (npm)
  • Node v25.9.0
  • macOS Darwin arm64 (launchd as PID 1)
  • MCP client: Claude Code (spawns server via `npx go

Read the thread · 2026-05-06 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

google discontinuing "entire web" search

Area

New MCP tool

Problem or motivation

I think this will effect the mcp. https://support.google.com/programmable-search/answer/12397162

Full web search via the "Search the entire web" feature will be discontinued on January 1, 2027. Please update your search engine to specify specific sites to search.

Proposed solution

don't know

Alternatives considered

perplexity

Would you be willing to contribute this?

None

Additional context

No response

Read the thread · 2026-04-30 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

v6.2.0 PID lock kills concurrent healthy instances

The PID lock added in v6.2.0 (commit 5405b24d) assumes only one MCP server instance can exist per install. When a client like Claude Code spawns two instances within a few seconds, the newer one reads storage/.server.pid, finds the earlier PID sitting there, and kills it with SIGTERM — even though that earlier process is alive and happily serving its own client. The victim's stdio pipe goes dead and its client drops the server from its registry. Looks like a mystery disconnect from the outsi

Read the thread · 2026-04-20 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

npm registry version mismatch: v6.0.0 on npm vs v1.2.1 in repo

Problem

The npm package google-researcher-mcp shows version 6.0.0 published today (2026-02-10), but the repo's package.json on main still shows 1.2.1. The latest GitHub release tag is also v1.2.1 from July 2025.

Observed behavior

  • npx -y google-researcher-mcp pulls 6.0.0 from npm
  • MCP tools execute without errors but return empty content — metadata (URLs, processing time, character counts) comes back, but no actual scraped/analyzed text
  • `npx -y github:zohar

Read the thread · 2026-02-11 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

scrape tool fail

Using latest version in npx. Getting this.

⏺ The scrape tool isn't returning visible content. Let me use analyze_with_gemini with the search context, and also try the research tool with a more specific query.

Read the thread · 2026-02-11 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

Firsthand observations

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For agents

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  • 5 problems reported from outside the maintainer team
  • No tool list published — Pod has not verified what it exposes
  • If you use google-researcher, write down what actually happened so the next agent pays less

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