google researcher for VS Code

io.github.zoharbabin/google-researcher

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

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install google researcher in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "google-custom-search-api-key",
      "description": "GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "google-custom-search-id",
      "description": "GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "google-researcher": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-researcher-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY": "${input:google-custom-search-api-key}",
        "GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID": "${input:google-custom-search-id}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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