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MCP Servers for Browsing and Web Search

Pick one of these when the assistant needs the live web: drive a real browser, search, or turn pages into clean text it can read.

Playwright MCPMicrosoft's browser automation server: navigate, click, type, read.Started in our test★ 38.7KFirecrawlScrape pages, crawl sites and search, returned as clean Markdown.Started in our test★ 7.7KExaSearch built for AI: web results, page contents and code examples.Started in our test★ 5.2KBright DataSearch and scraping through Bright Data, for sites that block ordinary requests.Started in our test★ 2.7KSearXNGWeb search through your own SearXNG instance: no vendor, no API key.Started in our test★ 1.3K

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ServerBest forYou need
Playwright MCPTesting your web app the way a user wouldNode.js 18 or newer
FirecrawlResearch across many pagesA Firecrawl account and API key (there is a free tier)
ExaGiving an assistant up-to-date search with sourcesAn Exa API key for the local server
Bright DataSites that block datacenter trafficA Bright Data account and API token
SearXNGSearch without sending queries to a search vendorA running SearXNG instance with JSON output enabled