Deep Web ResearchSAFE
Enhanced MCP server for deep web research
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for advanced web research.
Latest Changes
- Added visit_page tool for direct webpage content extraction
- Optimized performance to work within MCP timeout limits
- Reduced default maxDepth and maxBranching parameters
- Improved page loading efficiency
- Added timeout checks throughout the process
- Enhanced error handling for timeouts
This project is a fork of mcp-webresearch by mzxrai, enhanced with additional features for deep web research capabilities. We're grateful to the original creators for their foundational work.
Bring real-time info into Claude with intelligent search queuing, enhanced content extraction, and deep research capabilities.
Features
- Intelligent Search Queue System
- Batch search operations with rate limiting
- Queue management with progress tracking
- Error recovery and automatic retries
- Search result deduplication
- Enhanced Content Extraction
- TF-IDF based relevance scoring
- Keyword proximity analysis
- Content section weighting
- Readability scoring
- Improved HTML structure parsing
- Structured data extraction
- Better content cleaning and formatting
- Core Features
- Google search integration
- Webpage content extraction
- Research session tracking
- Markdown conversion with improved formatting
Prerequisites
- Node.js >
15517b636efdOBSERVED · 2026-10-07Connect
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.
claude mcp add mcp-deepwebresearch -- npx -y [email protected]
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-deepwebresearch": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"[email protected]"
]
}
}
}Exposed tools (5)
5 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
deep_research | read | Perform deep research on a topic with content extraction and analysis |
parallel_search | read | Perform multiple Google searches in parallel |
search_google | read | Search Google for a query |
take_screenshot | read | Take a screenshot of the current page |
visit_page | read | Visit a webpage and extract its content |
Trust 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 (2)
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk, @types/turndown, cheerio, html-to-md, natural, playwright, rate-limiter-flexible, readability
# Load environment variables
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
15517b636efdfull audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/qpd-v__deep-web-research-1.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | 15517b636efd | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What is the Deep Web Research MCP server?
Enhanced MCP server for deep web research
What tools does Deep Web Research expose?
5 in total: 5 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is Deep Web Research 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 Deep Web Research need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How does Deep Web Research run?
It speaks stdio, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as mcp-deepwebresearch at 0.3.0.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (15517b636efd), read on 2026-10-07. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.