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Olostep MCP Server offers web access tooling to your AI apps. It allows your AI to:
  1. Search the web to ground AI on real world data (facts, docs, events)
  2. Get the markdown content of any web page
  3. Discover and filter out relevant URLs within a website.

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Installation

You need to have an API key. Get the API key from https://www.olostep.com/dashboard/api-keys. You can either use our remote hosted URL or run the server locally

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Remote hosted URL

coming soon

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Running with npx

env OLOSTEP_API_KEY=your-api-key npx -y olostep-mcp

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Manual Installation

npm install -g olostep-mcp

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Running on Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json: 
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-olostep": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "olostep-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OLOSTEP_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

npx -y @smithery/cli install @olostep/olostep-mcp-server --client claude

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Running on Cursor

Add Olostep MCP server to Cursor

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Manual setup

To configure Olostep MCP in Cursor:
  • Open Cursor Settings (click on the settings icon in the top right of the IDE)
  • Click on MCP
  • Click on ”+ Add new global MCP Server”
  • Enter the following in the mcp.json file:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "olostep-web": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "olostep-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OLOSTEP_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
  • Remember to replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual API key that you can get from the Olostep dashboard
  • You can close the settings tab now. If needed refresh the MCP server list to see the new tools
If you are using Windows and are having issues, try cmd /c "set OLOSTEP_API_KEY=your-api-key && npx -y olostep-mcp"
Next time that you use Cursor it will automatically use the Olostep MCP when needed. You can also explicitly request to use the Olostep MCP when you need up to date information from the web

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Running on Windsurf

Add this to your ./codeium/windsurf/model_config.json: 
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-olostep": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "olostep-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OLOSTEP_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Available Tools

  • get_webpage_content: Retrieves webpage content in clean markdown format with support for JavaScript rendering
  • search_google: Searches Google for the given query and returns the search results
  • get_website_urls: Retrieves all URLs from a website and filters out the irrelevant ones
  • crawl_tool: Coming soon Systematically crawls websites following links and extracting content

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Conclusion

You can find complete details about Olostep MCP here.
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