Search API MCP server

Connect Search API to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Search API MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the web search tool in Search API
  • Use the google news search tool in Search API
  • Use the google maps search tool in Search API
  • Use the google images search tool in Search API
  • Use the google shopping search tool in Search API
  • Use the google videos search tool in Search API

Supported Tools

autocomplete

Google Autocomplete

Get Google Autocomplete suggestions for a search query. Returns a list of suggested completions that Google would display as a user types. Useful for keyword research, understanding search intent, and discovering popular queries.

lookup_locations

Lookup Locations

Look up geographic locations by name to get canonical location identifiers. Returns the top 10 matching locations with coordinates, country codes, and population reach. Use the returned location names as the **location** parameter in other search tools for precise geo-targeting.

get_account

Get Account Info

Retrieve your SearchApi account information including search usage statistics. Shows total searches performed this month, maximum allowable searches, and remaining search credits.

list_search_history

List Search History

Retrieve saved searches from the past 90 days, including original parameters, status, timing, and provider result links. Requires an active SearchApi subscription. Use nextPageToken to continue.

Connect Search API to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Search API in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Search API MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Search API tools.

Run Search API through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Search API and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Search API tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Search API

Salesforce

Manage CRM data including Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, and custom objects. Create, read, update, and delete records. Query data using SOQL and search across objects using SOSL. Perform bulk data operations for large-scale imports, exports, and migrations. Execute composite requests to batch multiple operations in a single API call. Access analytics, reports, and dashboards. Manage files and attachments associated with records. Interact with Chatter feeds, posts, and groups for social collaboration. Manage org metadata including custom objects, fields, layouts, and workflows. Query data using GraphQL for precise data retrieval across related objects.

Apolloio

Search and prospect B2B contacts and companies from a database of over 275 million people and 70 million organizations. Enrich people and company data with emails, phone numbers, and firmographic details. Create and manage contacts, accounts, deals, and tasks. Add contacts to email sequences and manage sequence statuses. Log and search call records. Perform bulk operations for contact creation, account creation, task creation, and data enrichment.

Hubspot

Create, read, update, and delete CRM objects including contacts, companies, deals, tickets, and custom objects. Manage associations between CRM records. Track engagements such as calls, emails, meetings, notes, and tasks. Send transactional and marketing emails, manage campaigns, and handle subscription preferences. Build and manage marketing workflows, sequences, and automation actions. Manage CMS content including blog posts, landing pages, and HubDB tables. Handle commerce data including products, orders, invoices, quotes, and payments. Create and manage contact lists for segmentation. Configure deal, ticket, and order pipelines with custom stages. Search and filter CRM records. Bulk import and export CRM data. Manage users, teams, and account settings.

Calendly

List, retrieve, and cancel scheduled events. Book meetings programmatically on behalf of invitees using available time slots. Retrieve event types and their configurations. Query user availability, available time slots, busy times, and availability schedules. Create single-use scheduling links with optional overrides. List and manage invitees, mark no-shows, and access custom question responses and UTM tracking data. Manage organization memberships, invite or remove users. Retrieve routing form configurations and submissions. Subscribe to webhooks for new bookings, cancellations, and routing form submissions.

Linkedin

Authenticate LinkedIn members with OpenID Connect, fetch the authenticated member profile, and create self-serve LinkedIn shares with text, article links, and uploaded images. Organization and Community Management workflows should move to a separate slate because LinkedIn restricts combining those products in one app.

Mailchimp

Manage email marketing audiences, campaigns, and automations. Create, send, schedule, and track email campaigns with detailed reporting on opens, clicks, and bounces. Add, update, and organize audience contacts with tags, segments, and interest groups. Set up and manage automation workflows triggered by subscriber activity or events. Connect e-commerce stores to manage customers, products, orders, and carts. Create and manage reusable email templates and landing pages. Upload and organize files for use in campaigns. Send transactional emails via the Mandrill API. Post custom events to trigger targeted automations. Configure webhooks to track subscribe, unsubscribe, profile updates, and email delivery events.

Technical notes for Search API

Perform real-time web searches across multiple search engines (Google, Bing, Baidu, Yahoo, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, Naver) and retrieve structured JSON results. Search Google verticals including Images, Videos, News, Shopping, Maps, Scholar, Trends, Flights, Hotels, Jobs, Finance, Patents, and Autocomplete. Scrape results from YouTube, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Airbnb, Tripadvisor, and app stores. Access ad transparency libraries for Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, and TikTok. Track keyword rankings for SEO, look up geo-targeting locations, retrieve search history, and check account usage. Supports localization by language, country, and device targeting.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Search API to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Search API MCP server have?
    The Search API MCP server exposes 14 tools, including Web Search, Google News Search, Google Maps Search. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Search API exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Search API MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Search API and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Search API MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

Connect Search API to production AI agents

See how Metorial gives your team governed access to Search API, with tracing and security controls built in.