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Openrouter Search Server

joaomj/openrouter-search-server

This is an MCP server project based on the OpenRouter API, providing web search functionality and using a specific Gemini model to return raw text results.

Install

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openrouter-search": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "/home/<user>/Cline/MCP/openrouter-search-server/build/index.js"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

OPENROUTER_API_KEY
GitHub stars
5
Author
@joaomj
Category
Research & Data, Search Tools
License
MIT
Updated
Oct 6, 2026

About Openrouter Search Server

Archived repo. For future developments see: https://github.com/joaomj/openrouter-websearch-mcp

Features

  • Web Search via OpenRouter: Utilizes the OpenRouter API to perform web searches.

  • Specific Model: Uses the google/gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 model.

  • Raw Text Output: The server returns the direct, unparsed text response generated by the AI model.

  • MCP Integration: Exposes a simple web_search tool compatible with MCP clients.

Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README

Supported clients

Clients mentioned in this server's README:

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