Research & Web Data MCP Servers for Claude
Search the web, scrape pages and pull transcripts so an assistant writes from real sources. Every listing below works with Claude.
Updated September 2026 · 6 listings
How to add research & web data MCP servers to Claude
Remote servers: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector and paste the server URL. Local servers: add them to Claude Desktop's claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers, or run claude mcp add in Claude Code.
Firecrawl MCP Server 🔌 MCP serverFreemium
Official Firecrawl server to scrape, crawl, map and search the web as clean Markdown
Exa MCP Server 🔌 MCP serverFreemium
Exa's hosted neural search server with web search, page fetch and deep research
Perplexity MCP Server 🔌 MCP serverFreemium
Official Perplexity API server for cited web search, answers and deep research
Tavily MCP Server 🔌 MCP serverFreemium
Tavily's search, extract, map and crawl tools for agents, hosted or local
Brave Search MCP Server 🔌 MCP serverFreemium
Official Brave server for web, news, image, video and local search plus summaries
YouTube Transcript MCP 🔌 MCP serverOpen source
Community server that fetches YouTube captions, with optional TwelveLabs video analysis
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