Create a MCP server for SerpApi

[sonika-serpapi]

A customer requested an MCP server for SerpApi.

I'm not sure if it's feasible or if we want to implement it, but I am opening this issue to track requests for it, so we can decide if we want to implement one.

I see @ilyazub started working on one here: https://github.com/ilyazub/serpapi-mcp-server

Internal links: Intercom

[sonika-serpapi]

A user requested this:

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[jbcoventry]

A customer asked about this:

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[AutumroseS]

A user has requested this: Intercom

[schaferyan]

Another user asked about MCP integration:

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[alexbarron]

Another request:

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[ilyazub]

Maybe we can simply deploy our MCP to https://fastmcp.cloud

[hartator]

Let's actually prioritize this work as it seems central to so many new integrations. We should probably release something official and as native as possible.

[ilyazub]

Random idea: host serpapi.com/mcp from our API, serpapi.com/mcp-api docs, and documentation-only serpapi-mcp-server repository (readme and autogenerated spec.md).

Pros: no extra network hops, we already have all the data, no extra devops work, we can generate input params schema in runtime.

Playing with the initial implementation.

[ritu1337]

Maybe we can simply deploy our MCP to fastmcp.cloud

Seems like brightdata/luminati MCP (1.5k Github stars) is using fastmcp: https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Abrightdata%2Fbrightdata-mcp%20fastmcp&type=code https://fastmcp.me/MCP/Details/298/bright-data https://brightdata.com/ai/mcp-server https://brightdata.com/ai/playground-chat

Firecrawl MCP (4.8k Github stars) also seems to use fastmcp and looks very good: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Afirecrawl%2Ffirecrawl-mcp-server%20fastmcp&type=code https://www.firecrawl.dev/ https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/fastmcp-tutorial-building-mcp-servers-python https://docs.firecrawl.dev/mcp-server

Especially given that we are behind on MCP, it sounds like a good idea to use fastmcp 👍. I assume it could also add familiarity so that people can switch to us more easily.

Random idea: host serpapi.com/mcp from our API, serpapi.com/mcp-api docs, and documentation-only serpapi-mcp-server repository (readme and autogenerated spec.md).

Could consider using serp.com/mcp in some capacity, but not sure about this. The repo then could be /serpapi/serp-mcp.

Edit: didn't realize there's FastMCP and FastMCP Cloud. Maybe it's better to self host instead of using the cloud thingy, or use the Enterprise cloud version with "Bring your own Compute".

[ilyazub]

Let's also explore if it makes sense to serve our documentation in llms.txt format (ref), probably in a separate issue.

[ilyazub]

playground-chat

Looks like a great alternative to our https://serpapi.com/playground!

[vladm-serpapi]

I have started the roadmap draft which will be ready today or tomorrow. We will then sync with Ilya and Terry and proceed with the implementation steps.

[oceansize]

A customer reached out about this:

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[jbcoventry]

A user reached out about this:

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[AutumroseS]

Another user reached out: Intercom

[vladm-serpapi]

@AutumroseS @jbcoventry @oceansize we have released v1 of our MCP server.

• MCP server is available at: https://mcp.serpapi.com
• Github repository: https://github.com/serpapi/serpapi-mcp
• Introductory blog post: https://serpapi.com/blog/introducing-serpapis-mcp-server/

We will soon follow with more content, documentation and iteration on the MCP quality.