Search & Discovery MCP Servers

World Bank API providing access to global economic indicators, development data, and country statistics for research and analysis.

Zenodo open research repository hosted by CERN. Search and retrieve research outputs including papers, datasets, and software with DOI-backed metadata, versioning, and file access.

Crunchbase is the leading platform for company intelligence. Search and look up organizations, people, funding rounds, acquisitions, and investors. Requires an Enterprise or Applications license for full API access.

NCBI E-utilities API providing access to PubMed and other biomedical databases with search and retrieval capabilities.

OpenAlex is an open catalog of the global research system. Search works, retrieve work metadata, and expand citations using an open citation graph. A free API key from openalex.org/settings/api unlocks $1/day of usage; unauthenticated calls are limited to a small demo allowance.

Semantic Scholar Academic Graph, Recommendations, and Datasets APIs — search papers, explore citations, discover authors, get paper recommendations, and search text snippets across 214M+ academic papers. Most endpoints work without authentication; an optional API key provides dedicated rate limits (sent as x-api-key header, case-sensitive per the OpenAPI spec).

JSONPlaceholder providing fake REST API data for testing and prototyping including posts, users, todos, and comments.

Deck of Cards API providing virtual playing card deck operations including shuffling, drawing cards, and deck management.

Open Library API providing access to the world's largest collection of books, authors, and works with detailed metadata and availability information.

Harmonic is a startup discovery and enrichment platform with 29M+ companies and 190M+ people. Search, enrich, and manage deal flow with company data, founder profiles, funding history, investor networks, saved searches, and company/people lists.

Google Programmable Search Engine (Custom Search JSON API) lets you run web and image searches via API using an API key and a search engine (cx) identifier.

Crossref provides DOI registration and rich scholarly metadata. Use the Crossref REST API to search works and fetch metadata by DOI.

Open Brewery DB API providing detailed information about breweries worldwide, including location, type, and contact details.

PubMed Central API providing access to millions of biomedical and life sciences research articles, with full-text search and metadata retrieval.

PokéAPI providing detailed Pokémon data including stats, abilities, moves, types, and evolutionary information.

Directory of Open Access Journals — a curated index of peer-reviewed, open access journals. Search across articles and journals by topic, author, or keyword.

Search MCPBundles documentation and blog posts. Returns ranked markdown sections from the official docs site so agents can answer setup, bundle, and integration questions with current guidance.

Search DBLP's computer science bibliography, fetch publication records and BibTeX, look up authors and venues, and estimate publication trends from live DBLP results.

Europe PMC indexes life sciences literature including PubMed, patents, and clinical guidelines. Search publications, retrieve citations, and explore reference networks.

bioRxiv and medRxiv preprint servers for biology and health sciences. Search preprints by keyword or date range, retrieve full metadata, and check for published peer-reviewed versions.

Joke API providing programming jokes and humor for developers and entertainment.

Research Organization Registry (ROR) — a global, open registry of research organizations. Search and retrieve organization metadata by name or identifier.

Search and retrieve scientific papers from arXiv. Provides paper metadata (title, authors, abstract, categories) and PDF links via the official arXiv API.

GitHub Zen API providing inspirational quotes and wisdom from the GitHub platform.