MCP Deep Research

What is mcp-deep-research?

mcp-deep-research is a lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that helps you discover, retrieve, and read academic papers from the web using the Google Scholar interface. It is designed for researchers and anyone who needs to quickly search for and extract clean-text content from academic papers.

How to use mcp-deep-research?

Install via pip (command not yet listed; use pip install placeholders as the README does not provide the exact package name). Optionally launch Google Chrome with remote debugging on port 9222 if it is not already running. Then run the server with either mcp-deep-research --transport sse --port 8000 for SSE or mcp-deep-research --transport stdio for STDIO transport. The server exposes three read-only tools to any MCP-capable client.

Key features of mcp-deep-research

• Search Google Scholar with optional year filter and date sort
• Convert any public web page to clean Markdown
• Auto-detect paper content (title, abstract, body, references) and strip noise
• 100% read-only; no writes, uploads, or local file access
• Supports configurable proxy for institutional or regional firewalls
• Respects each site’s robots.txt

Use cases of mcp-deep-research

• Quickly find recent academic papers on a specific topic by year and date
• Fetch and read the full text of a paper directly in a chat interface
• Extract clean Markdown content from any public web page for further processing