Serpapi
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-SERPAPI · 2 COMPONENTS
SerpApi MCP — wraps SerpApi (serpapi.com) search engines
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Last scanned (6 hours ago)
Scores higher than 76% of npm servers
Category Search and Retrieval
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-serpapi). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability69
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1098 tokens (~183/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management23
- Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 +3
- Tool safety: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Stability: Stability not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet. security
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- Capabilities: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 100 → unverified ▼ functional
- Stability: unverified → 0.23 ▲ functional
- First check of Schema quality: unverified functional
- Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 functional
- 4 Nov 26 0
- Security disclosure: fail → unverified ▼ functional
- 2 Nov 26 0
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- 1 Nov 26 0
- Security disclosure: fail → unverified ▼ functional
- 30 Oct 26 0
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- 29 Oct 26 80
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Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-serpapi@0.2.1
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | pipeworx-io/mcp-serpapi |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-serpapi/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3692346705 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:92b327d71d24ea7ba24d91686af196eb70e23ded68bee40809a0dd8c293ae2c72ac5abca24c0fe7b68b6afe8c95403526a1d22d0a0996679bf4951e51 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
serpapi_google_jobs ~141
Search Google Jobs for `<query>` — returns title, company, location, source, posted date, schedule, description, and apply link via SerpApi. Example: serpapi_google_jobs({ q: "data engineer", location: "Austin, TX", _apiKey: "your-serpapi-key" })
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | yes | SerpApi API key (get one at serpapi.com) |
| location | string | – | Optional location, e.g. "Austin, TX", "London, United Kingdom" |
| q | string | yes | Job search query, e.g. "data engineer", "barista part time" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
serpapi_google_maps ~159
Find local businesses on Google Maps for `<query>` — returns name, address, rating, reviews, phone, website, and GPS coordinates via SerpApi. Example: serpapi_google_maps({ q: "coffee shops", ll: "@40.7,-74.0,14z", _apiKey: "your-serpapi-key" })
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | yes | SerpApi API key (get one at serpapi.com) |
| ll | string | – | Optional GPS location + zoom anchor, e.g. "@40.7,-74.0,14z" (latitude,longitude,zoom) |
| q | string | yes | Search query, e.g. "coffee shops", "plumbers near me" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
serpapi_google_news ~156
Search Google News for `<query>` — returns headline, source, link, date, and snippet via SerpApi. Example: serpapi_google_news({ q: "openai", gl: "us", hl: "en", _apiKey: "your-serpapi-key" })
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | yes | SerpApi API key (get one at serpapi.com) |
| gl | string | – | Optional two-letter country code, e.g. "us", "gb" |
| hl | string | – | Optional two-letter UI language code, e.g. "en", "fr" |
| q | string | yes | News search query, e.g. "openai", "federal reserve rate" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
serpapi_google_scholar ~193
Search Google Scholar for academic papers on `<topic>` — returns title, link, snippet, publication info, and citation count via SerpApi. Example: serpapi_google_scholar({ q: "graph neural networks", as_ylo: 2020, num: 10, _apiKey: "your-serpapi-key" })
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | yes | SerpApi API key (get one at serpapi.com) |
| as_yhi | integer | – | Optional end year (results published up to this year), e.g. 2024 |
| as_ylo | integer | – | Optional start year (results published from this year onward), e.g. 2020 |
| num | integer | – | Max results to return (default 10, max 20) |
| q | string | yes | Search query / topic, e.g. "graph neural networks" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
serpapi_google_shopping ~164
Search Google Shopping for `<query>` — returns product title, price, source, rating, reviews, product ID, and link via SerpApi. Example: serpapi_google_shopping({ q: "wireless earbuds", gl: "us", hl: "en", _apiKey: "your-serpapi-key" })
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | yes | SerpApi API key (get one at serpapi.com) |
| gl | string | – | Optional two-letter country code, e.g. "us", "gb" |
| hl | string | – | Optional two-letter UI language code, e.g. "en", "fr" |
| q | string | yes | Product search query, e.g. "wireless earbuds", "running shoes" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
serpapi_google_trends ~232
Get Google Trends interest-over-time for `<terms>` — returns the requested trends block (interest over time, by region, or related queries) via SerpApi. Example: serpapi_google_trends({ q: "bitcoin,ethereum", date: "today 12-m", geo: "US", _apiKey: "your-serpapi-key" })
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | yes | SerpApi API key (get one at serpapi.com) |
| data_type | string | – | Trends block to return (default "TIMESERIES"). One of TIMESERIES, GEO_MAP, GEO_MAP_0, RELATED_QUERIES |
| date | string | – | Optional time range, e.g. "today 12-m", "today 5-y", "2021-01-01 2021-12-31" |
| geo | string | – | Optional two-letter geo code to scope the trend, e.g. "US", "GB" |
| q | string | yes | Up to 5 comma-separated terms to compare, e.g. "bitcoin,ethereum" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Serpapi MCP server?
Serpapi runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-serpapi. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pipeworx/mcp-serpapi
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-serpapi -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-serpapi
What is the Serpapi MCP server?
Serpapi is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/serpapi. SerpApi MCP, wraps SerpApi (serpapi.com) search engines. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-serpapi).
Is the Serpapi MCP server safe to use?
Serpapi scores 83 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the Serpapi MCP server expose?
Serpapi exposes 6 tools: serpapi_google_scholar, serpapi_google_maps, serpapi_google_trends, serpapi_google_jobs, serpapi_google_news, serpapi_google_shopping. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,045 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Serpapi MCP server still maintained?
Serpapi is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the Serpapi MCP server under?
Serpapi declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.