Web Search & Scraping MCP Servers for OpenAI Codex

Search the web and turn pages into clean, LLM-ready content. Every listing below works with OpenAI Codex. Free GitHub projects and paid options are ranked together.

Updated October 2026 · 9 listings · stars refreshed daily from GitHub

How to add web search & scraping MCP servers to OpenAI Codex

Codex reads MCP servers from ~/.codex/config.toml under [mcp_servers.<name>] tables, or add one with codex mcp add.

All MCP servers 74 Docs & code context MCP servers 18 Developer tool MCP servers 16 Web search & scraping MCP servers 9 Design MCP servers 7 Cloud & deployment MCP servers 6 Database & backend MCP servers 6 Productivity MCP servers 5 MCP platforms & gateways 4 Browser & testing MCP servers 3

Firecrawl MCP 🔌 MCP serverFreemium

Scrape, crawl and search the web as clean Markdown from your agent

★ 7.5k · +24 this week

🔥 Free plan: 1,000 credits every month, no card needed

8.5 Visit ↗

Apify MCP Server 🔌 MCP serverFreemium

Official Apify server: run Apify Store scrapers and web-fetch Actors as agent tools

★ 9.4k · +890 this week

🔥 Students & researchers: 50% off any paid Apify plan for up to 4 months (apply with a university email)

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Exa MCP 🔌 MCP serverFreemium

AI-native web and code search for agents, from Exa

★ 5.1k · +21 this week

🔥 $20 free credits for new accounts, plus $10 free every month

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Tavily MCP 🔌 MCP serverFreemium

Real-time web search and extraction built for AI agents

★ 2.4k · +9 this week

🔥 Free plan: 1,000 API credits/month, no credit card required; separate free program for students

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Wigolo 🔌 MCP serverOpen source

Local-first MCP server giving coding agents search, crawl, extract and research tools

★ 5.4k · +30 this week

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arXiv MCP Server 🔌 MCP serverOpen source

Search, read and cite arXiv papers section by section, including original LaTeX

★ 3.2k · +12 this week

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DuckDuckGo MCP Server 🔌 MCP serverOpen source

Keyless web search and page fetching for agents through DuckDuckGo's HTML results

★ 1.5k · +9 this week

6.8 GitHub ↗

Korean Law Mcp 🔌 MCP serverFree

MCP server for querying South Korea's national legal database with citation verification

★ 2.6k · +12 this week

6.5 GitHub ↗

AnySearch MCP Server 🔌 MCP serverFreemium

Real-time web and vertical-domain search MCP server with batch queries and URL content extraction

★ 1.9k · +6 this week

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