Daedra — Self-contained Web Search MCP Server

7 search backends tried in order. Serper → Tavily → Bing → Wikipedia → StackOverflow → GitHub → DuckDuckGo. First one that returns results wins.

Wikipedia, StackExchange, and GitHub APIs always work — even from datacenter/VPS IPs where Google, Bing, and DDG are CAPTCHA-blocked.

Drop-in MCP server for Claude, Cursor, pawan, or any MCP client. STDIO and SSE (HTTP) transports. web_search + visit_page tools.

No Docker. No Python. No SearXNG. Single binary. Async I/O, connection pooling, response caching. Daedra IS the search infrastructure.

Search Backends

Backend	Type	API Key	Works from VPS?
Serper.dev	Google JSON API	`SERPER_API_KEY`	Yes
Tavily	AI-optimized API	`TAVILY_API_KEY`	Yes
Bing	HTML scraping	None	Sometimes
Wikipedia	OpenSearch API	None	Always
StackExchange	Public API	None	Always
GitHub	Public API	None / `GITHUB_TOKEN`	Always
DuckDuckGo	HTML scraping	None	Rarely

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "daedra": {
      "command": "daedra",
      "args": ["serve", "--transport", "stdio", "--quiet"]
    }
  }
}

daedra search "rust async runtime" --num-results 5
daedra fetch https://rust-lang.org
daedra check