# Open Web Search

> Use this tool when you need to perform web searches across multiple engines, extract specialized content from Chinese platforms, or retrieve targeted information from technical forums and knowledge bases. It solves problems related to research workflows, content analysis, and building AI assistants that require programmatic access to web search results. The tool takes in search queries and engine selections as inputs and returns paginated search results and extracted content as outputs.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/aas-ee-open-web-search  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/aas-ee-open-web-search

## Description

This MCP server provides AI assistants with web search capabilities across multiple search engines including Bing, Baidu, Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Exa, plus specialized content extraction from Chinese platforms like CSDN, Zhihu, and LinuxDo. Built using TypeScript with axios for HTTP requests, cheerio for HTML parsing, and JSDOM for content processing, it features configurable search engine selection, site-specific search filtering, and dedicated article content extraction that bypasses anti-bot measures using realistic browser headers and cookies. The implementation includes comprehensive error handling, result pagination, and supports both general web search and targeted content retrieval from technical forums and knowledge platforms, making it valuable for research workflows, content analysis, and building AI assistants that need programmatic access to Chinese technical content and general web search results without manual browsing.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.54
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** browser-automation
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/aas-ee-open-web-search)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/aas-ee/open-websearch>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "aas-ee-open-web-search"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/aas-ee-open-web-search` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/aas-ee-open-web-search/pull`

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