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Published 23d MCP Search & Web
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Summary

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Adds Serper webpage extraction, news parsing, and new web_search parameters.

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web-search-plus-mcp v0.16.0

Syncs the MCP package to the Web Search Plus v2.9.x feature surface.

Highlights

  • Adds Serper webpage extraction and exposes serper in the MCP web_extract provider enum.
  • Adds freshness, search_type, country, and language to the MCP web_search schema.
  • Adds query-aware locale resolution for provider calls.
  • Adds Serper news parsing and freshness/search-type metadata.
  • Updates package/server/User-Agent version surfaces to 0.16.0.

Verification

  • python3 -m compileall -q web_search_plus_mcp tests
  • python3 -m pytest -q107 passed
  • ruff check . → clean
  • Package build produced wheel and sdist for 0.16.0.
  • MCP schema smoke verified the new search params and Serper extraction enum.
  • Live Serper search/extract smoke passed before merge.

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About robbyczgw-cla/web-search-plus-mcp

Multi-provider web search with intelligent auto-routing (Serper, Tavily, Exa)

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Related context

Earlier breaking changes

  • v1.0.0 Native Perplexity and Kilo Perplexity answer endpoints removed from public provider schemas.
  • v1.0.0 Public search surface reduced to 12 verified source-result providers; extraction limited to 8 providers.
  • v0.5.1 kilo_perplexity renamed to kilo-perplexity without aliasing
  • v0.5.1 Perplexity provider separated from kilo-perplexity with distinct API keys

Beta — feedback welcome: [email protected]