# Serper.live (npm · @serper-live/mcp)

Live Google search results, domain positions and open markets via the Serper.live SERP API.

- Trust score: 88/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- mcpb · `serper-live-mcp.mcpb`: 55/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/serper-live-serper-live-mcp/serper-live-mcp-2.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/serper-live-serper-live-mcp/serper-live-mcp-2)
- npm · `@serper-live/mcp`: 88/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/serper-live-serper-live-mcp/serper-live-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/serper-live-serper-live-mcp/serper-live-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@serper-live/mcp`
- Version: `2.2.0`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 0 of 3 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to serper-live/serper-live-mcp).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 70/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 711 tokens (~237/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 57/100
  - Stability observed for 17 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Serper.live MCP server?

Serper.live runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @serper-live/mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add serper-live-serper-live-mcp -- npx -y @serper-live/mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "serper-live-serper-live-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@serper-live/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "serper-live-serper-live-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@serper-live/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add serper-live-serper-live-mcp -- npx -y @serper-live/mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "serper-live-serper-live-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@serper-live/mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add serper-live-serper-live-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg @serper-live/mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  serper-live-serper-live-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@serper-live/mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "serper-live-serper-live-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@serper-live/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add serper-live-serper-live-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y @serper-live/mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "serper-live-serper-live-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@serper-live/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 88, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-04 (score 87, 0)

- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Stability: 0.50 → unverified
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 2.1.2 → 2.2.0

### 2026-11-02 (score 87, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 86, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 85, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 84, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 83, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-22 (score 82, +16)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

## MCP tools (3)

### `google_search` (~332 tokens)

Live Google search

Run a live Google search for a country, language and device and return the organic results in Google's order: position, title, URL, domain and snippet, plus the questions of Google's "People also ask" block and its related searches. Ads, sitelinks, video and image blocks are left out, so position is the organic rank. Every call is a real, uncached search that usually takes 2–3 seconds and is billed to the Serper.live balance per page of up to 10 results that received results, after the free searches of the account (https://serper.live/pricing); a search that finds nothing costs nothing. Use it to see the whole result list; to check where one site ranks, use domain_position instead.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string, required): Two-letter code of the market to search in, e.g. "US", "GB", "DE", "FR", "TR": Google sees a visitor from this country. Call list_countries for the markets that are open right now.
- `device` (string): Browser persona Google sees. Desktop and mobile rankings often differ. Default: desktop.
- `language` (string): Google interface language (hl), e.g. "en", "de", "fr", "uk". Defaults to the language of the country; the market itself is set by country.
- `limit` (integer): How many organic results to return, 1–100. Default: 10. Each page of 10 that receives results is billed.
- `query` (string, required): Search keyword, exactly as a person would type it into Google.

### `domain_position` (~311 tokens)

Domain position in Google

Find where a domain ranks in Google's organic results for a keyword, in a country and on a device, right now. Prefer it over google_search when only one site matters: it returns that site's best position and every other position, or a note that the site is outside the checked depth. A subdomain counts as the domain: example.com also matches blog.example.com. Billed like google_search, per page of 10 results of depth that received results (https://serper.live/pricing).

Input parameters:

- `country` (string, required): Two-letter code of the market to search in, e.g. "US", "GB", "DE", "FR", "TR": Google sees a visitor from this country. Call list_countries for the markets that are open right now.
- `depth` (integer): How many organic results to check, 1–100. Default: 10. Use 30 or more to see positions beyond the first page.
- `device` (string): Browser persona Google sees. Desktop and mobile rankings often differ. Default: desktop.
- `domain` (string, required): Domain to look for, e.g. "example.com". Scheme, path and a leading www are ignored.
- `language` (string): Google interface language (hl), e.g. "en", "de", "fr", "uk". Defaults to the language of the country; the market itself is set by country.
- `query` (string, required): Search keyword, exactly as a person would type it into Google.

### `list_countries` (~68 tokens)

Open Serper.live markets

List the countries Serper.live can search right now, with the default Google interface language of each. Call it when unsure whether a market is open, then pass a returned code as country to google_search or domain_position. Desktop and mobile are available in every market. Free, no token needed.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/serper-live-serper-live-mcp/serper-live-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 88
- 2026-11-04: 87
- 2026-11-03: 87
- 2026-11-02: 87
- 2026-11-01: 86
- 2026-10-31: 86
- 2026-10-30: 85
- 2026-10-29: 85
- 2026-10-28: 84
- 2026-10-27: 84
- 2026-10-26: 83
- 2026-10-25: 83
- 2026-10-24: 83
- 2026-10-23: 82
- 2026-10-22: 82
- 2026-10-21: 66
- 2026-10-20: 55
- 2026-10-19: 80

## Common questions

### What is the Serper.live MCP server?

Serper.live is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.serper-live/serper-live-mcp. Live Google search results, domain positions and open markets via the Serper.live SERP API. This page covers its npm package (@serper-live/mcp).

### Is the Serper.live MCP server safe to use?

Serper.live scores 88 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 Serper.live MCP server expose?

Serper.live exposes 3 tools: google_search, domain_position, list_countries. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 711 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Serper.live MCP server still maintained?

Serper.live 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 Serper.live MCP server under?

Serper.live declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@serper-live/mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@serper-live/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/serper-live/serper-live-mcp
- Website: https://serper.live/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/serper-live-serper-live-mcp/serper-live-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/serper-live-serper-live-mcp/serper-live-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/serper-live-serper-live-mcp/serper-live-mcp