Best for · web search · data checked 2026-11-15

Best MCP servers & Codex plugins for web search

15 plugins in our catalog say they help with web search. Here are the top 12, editor's picks first, then by GitHub stars. Most of them sit in Docs, Content & SEO and Agent Workflows.

Quick read on these 12: 8 have a permissive license, 9 got a push in the last 30 days, 1 install as a hosted MCP endpoint.

How to choose

Match the host first: Codex and Claude Code install commands differ, and the install line below shows which one each project targets.
Check where it runs. Hosted MCP endpoints are quicker to set up but send your requests to someone else's server.
Prefer a recent push and a real license (MIT or Apache-2.0) for anything you'll use at work.
Stars tell you how many people looked, not whether it works. Read the code before you install.

The list

1. Claude Octopus

Multi-LLM orchestration dispatching to 8 providers (Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Qwen, Perplexity, OpenRouter, Ollama, OpenCode) with Double Diamond workflows, adversarial review, and safety gates.

★ 4,443 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-15 (this week) · plugin · by nyldn

claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/nyldn/plugins.git

2. CRW

Fast, lightweight Firecrawl/Tavily alternative written in Rust: web scraper, crawler and search API that agents can call as an MCP server.

★ 1,260 · AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-15 (this week) · MCP server · by fastcrw

3. X Twitter Scraper

X/Twitter data, monitored workflows, HMAC webhooks, and MCP access through the Xquik REST API with confirmation-gated write guidance.

★ 229 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-13 (this week) · MCP server, plugin · by Xquik-dev

codex plugin marketplace add Xquik-dev/x-twitter-scraper

4. Crawlie

Fast, free, open-source technical SEO and GEO crawler built for humans and agents, installable as a Codex plugin marketplace.

★ 127 · No license file · pushed 2026-10-26 (last 30 days) · MCP server · by spronta

claude mcp add crawlie crawlie-mcp

Turn a trading idea, post or video into fixed rules, backtest and paper-trade them for free, and request a live trading agent on Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, MEXC, Hyperliquid, Polymarket or Solana DEXs that you approve and sign, through Krexa's hosted MCP server.

★ 119 · MIT-0 · pushed 2026-11-03 (last 30 days) · MCP server, skills · by Krexa-xyz

npx skills add krexa-xyz/skills --skill krexa -g

6. Google Search Console MCP

MCP server that lets Claude, Cursor, Codex and other clients query Google Search Console data in plain English for keywords, indexing and period comparisons.

★ 5 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 (last 30 days) · MCP server · by Bilal Naseer · alternatives

7. gsc-mcp

Local Google Search Console MCP server for Claude, Cursor and Codex: 34 tools, Quick Connect without a Google Cloud project, and read-only access by default.

★ 4 · Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 (last 30 days) · MCP server · by Sonni Vasquez

claude mcp add gsc-mcp -e GSC_AUTH_MODE=oauth -e GSC_ACCESS_MODE=readonly -e GSC_SITE_URLS=sc-domain:example.com -- npx -y @sonnivasquez/gsc-mcp

8. Sofya

Web search with page content, URL and document reading (PDF, Office) as markdown, single-fact extraction and cited research reports through Sofya's hosted MCP server with browser sign-in, plus search and research skills.

★ 2 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-11 (this week) · MCP server, plugin, skills · by sofya-co

/plugin install sofya --marketplace sofya-co/sofya-mcp

9. DataForSEO Codex Plugins

Official Codex marketplace plugins that pull live keyword, SERP, backlink and on-page SEO data from DataForSEO through their hosted MCP server.

★ 1 · Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-03 (73 days ago) · MCP server, plugin · by DataForSEO

codex plugin marketplace add dataforseo/codex-plugins

10. Ahel

Remote MCP server for data tasks: company and people enrichment, SEO and SERP data, social media data and official EU business registers, each call priced before it runs and paid from a prepaid balance. Website: https://ahel.ai

★ 0 · No license file · pushed 2026-11-03 (last 30 days) · MCP server, plugin · by ahel-technologies

/plugin marketplace add ahel-technologies/ahel

11. Seltz

Live web search and page fetch for current, source-backed answers in Codex through Seltz's hosted MCP server, with browser sign-in to a Seltz account and usage drawn from the account's balance.

★ 0 · No license file · pushed 2026-11-10 (this week) · MCP server · by seltz-ai

codex mcp add seltz --url https://mcp.seltz.ai/mcp

12. Seonix

Connects Codex to your Seonix SEO project through the hosted Seonix MCP server with OAuth sign-in (Site Health and fix plan, Google Search Console, keyword clusters, draft scoring, eleven SEO playbooks) plus three skills that fix the site in code and ship content; writes run only after you confirm, and the server requires a paid Seonix plan.

★ 0 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 (this week) · MCP server, plugin, skills · by seonix-ai

claude plugin marketplace add seonix-ai/mcp

Head-to-head

Google Search Console MCP vs gsc-mcp

Matched by keywords in each project's own name and description. The topic comes from what people actually type into Google and Bing search boxes.

All comparisons and use cases →

Data from GitHub and each project's README, checked 2026-11-15. We haven't installed or audited these, and stars measure attention, not quality. Paid placements never change this page. Spot a mistake? hello@pickaplugin.com