gkjpettet/mcpweb

mcpweb

A MCP server for searching the web, written in Xojo.

Usage

Build the project and place the built components in the desired location on your system. I'm on a Mac and I place it in my Users folder: /Users/garry/mcp-servers/mcpweb.

In your MCP client application (e.g. LM Studio, Claude Desktop, etc), follow the instructions on how to add an MCP server to the application. This usually involves editing some sort of mcp.json file.

mcpweb currently only supports searching the web using Kagi and so it requires an --apikey command line argument containing a valid API key for Kagi. This requires a subscription but in my opinion is worth it.

You can also pass a --verbose flag to mcpweb which will instruct it to output detailed logging to stderr.

Here is what my LM Studio mcp.json file looks like (API key redacted):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcpweb": {
      "command": "/Users/garry/mcp-servers/mcpweb/mcpweb",
      "args": [
        "--apikey",
        "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Once you've informed your MCP client about the server, you normally have to restart the client to finalise things. Once that's done, you're local LLM will use mcpweb to search the web using Kagi.

Hopefully looking at the code will demonstrate how easy it is to build your own tools to use with LLMs using Xojo.