google-scholar-mcpSAFE
MCP server for Google Scholar: search papers with Scholar operators, year ranges, cited-by and all-versions lookups, plus citations in five styles with BibTeX export. 1,000 free credits every month.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
A hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives Claude, Cursor, Windsurf and any other MCP client two read-only Google Scholar tools. Search the literature with Scholar's own operators, year ranges and cited-by lookups, then pull a paper's citation in five styles with its BibTeX and EndNote export links, both as structured JSON, with nothing to host.
It reads public Google Scholar pages that a signed-out visitor can see.
1,000 free credits every month, no card required, which is 100 Scholar calls at the 10-credit rate.
https://mcp.hasdata.com/mcp?apis=google_scholar
[](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/HasData/google-scholar-mcp) [](https://github.com/HasData/google-scholar-mcp/actions/workflows/contract.yml) [](https://mcp.hasdata.com/mcp?apis=google_scholar) [](#tools)
- Prompts and resources
[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@hasdata/google-scholar-mcp) [](https://pypi.org/project/hasdata-google-scholar-mcp/) [](LICENSE)
Contents
- What you need
- Quick start
- Example prompts
- Tools
- Errors and failure paths
- Pricing, free tier and limits
- [T
d93f42789947OBSERVED · 2026-10-10Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control. Replace the environment placeholders with a token scoped to the least it needs.
claude mcp add google-scholar-mcp --env HASDATA_API_KEY=${HASDATA_API_KEY} --env HASDATA_API_KEY=${HASDATA_API_KEY} -- npx -y @hasdata/[email protected]claude mcp add hasdata-google-scholar-mcp --env HASDATA_API_KEY=${HASDATA_API_KEY} --env HASDATA_API_KEY=${HASDATA_API_KEY} -- uvx hasdata-google-scholar-mcp==1.0.2Trust audit
SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | PASS |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- none-observed
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- not all pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (3)
mcp-remote
| Eligibility | Open, no key for basic use | An API key |
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
d93f42789947full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/hasdata__google-scholar-mcp.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | d93f42789947 | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What is the google-scholar-mcp MCP server?
MCP server for Google Scholar: search papers with Scholar operators, year ranges, cited-by and all-versions lookups, plus citations in five styles with BibTeX export. 1,000 free credits every month.
Is google-scholar-mcp safe to connect to an agent?
The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean server reads B.
What credentials does google-scholar-mcp need?
It reads HASDATA_API_KEY from the environment. Give it a token scoped to the least it needs — an agent that can be talked into calling a tool can be talked into calling it with your credentials.
How does google-scholar-mcp run?
It speaks stdio and streamable-http, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as @hasdata/google-scholar-mcp at 1.0.0.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (d93f42789947), read on 2026-10-10. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.