Overview
What is Maibaamcrawler?
Maibaamcrawler is an MCP server that provides eight read-only tools for web research, academic paper retrieval, Twitter/X extraction, YouTube video analysis, and file ingestion. It integrates with the MCP stdio protocol to enable AI assistants to perform research tasks.
How to use Maibaamcrawler?
Install the mcp-research package via pip install mcp-research or run directly with uvx mcp-research. Configure environment variables like BRAVE_API_KEY and OLLAMA_URL, then add the server to your MCP client configuration (e.g., Claude Code or Claude Desktop). Use the CLI commands such as mcp-research search or mcp-research doctor for direct interaction.
Key features of Maibaamcrawler
- Eight read-only tools for diverse research needs
- Credential vault for institutional access to paywalled content
- 3-tier web search cascade with Brave API, DuckDuckGo, and fallback
- YouTube transcript extraction, AI summary, chapters, and quotes
- Academic paper resolution via DOI, ArXiv, or PubMed
- File ingestion from PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, audio, video
