Wigolo

MCP server by KnockOutEZ

Search, fetch, crawl and research the web locally from your coding agent, with no API keys for core tools.

Runs locally (Runs on your machine: its page has the install command)Runs with npxNeeds an API key

Install Wigolo

Runs on your machine. Your client starts it with this command:

npx -y wigolo

Needs Node.js on your computer. The setup steps below show where the command goes in each client.

  • YOUR_API_KEY secret Your API key for the service

Share this server

Opens this page, with the install command and setup steps.

mcp.tc/i/wigolo

About

Wigolo gives an AI coding agent one set of web tools: multi-engine search, page fetching, crawling, structured extraction, a local cache, find-similar and research. Search results carry excerpts, citation IDs and per-result scores. Fetching escalates from plain HTTP to a headless browser when a page needs it.

It runs locally over stdio through npx and stores its data in ~/.wigolo/. It needs Node 20 or newer and about 1.5 GB of disk for the browser engine and on-device models. Search, fetch, crawl, extract, cache and find-similar need no API key. The research and agent tools can use an LLM provider (Gemini, Anthropic, OpenAI, Groq or Ollama) to write a synthesized answer.

What you can do

  • Search the web across multiple engines with reranking and scores
  • Fetch a URL as clean markdown, including PDFs and JavaScript pages
  • Crawl sites by BFS, DFS or sitemap with robots.txt respect
  • Extract tables, JSON-LD and custom JSON Schema data from pages
  • Query previously fetched pages in a local cache
  • Find pages similar to a URL or concept
  • Run cited research and autonomous gather loops

Tools

Wigolo lists its tools only to clients with a key, so we can’t show them here.

Example prompts

  • Search the web for PostgreSQL logical replication docs and cite the sources

  • Fetch this URL and give me the page as markdown

  • Crawl the docs site at example.com and list all pages

  • Research how other projects handle rate limiting and summarize with citations

Set up

Every client starts Wigolo on your machine with the same command. Pick yours; the page remembers your choice.

Claude Code

  1. Run this in a terminal, in your project folder:
claude mcp add --transport stdio wigolo --env "YOUR_API_KEY=<YOUR_YOUR_API_KEY>" -- npx -y wigolo
  1. Start Claude Code and type /mcp. wigolo should show as connected.

Add --scope user to make it available in every project. Replace the placeholders with your own values.

Claude Desktop

  1. Open Settings → Developer → Edit Config. It opens claude_desktop_config.json. Add:
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wigolo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "wigolo"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YOUR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_YOUR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}
  1. Save the file and restart Claude Desktop. Replace the placeholders with your own values.

Needs Node.js on your computer. The file lives in ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/ on macOS and %APPDATA%\Claude\ on Windows.

Cursor

Or add it by hand to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json (this project):

mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wigolo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "wigolo"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YOUR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_YOUR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Needs Node.js on your computer. Replace the placeholders with your own values.

VS Code

Add it to .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code asks for the secret the first time and stores it securely:

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "wigolo": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "wigolo"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YOUR_API_KEY": "${input:your-api-key}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "your-api-key",
      "description": "YOUR_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ]
}

Needs Node.js on your computer.

Devin Desktop

  1. Add it to ~/.config/devin/mcp_config.json (macOS and Linux) or %APPDATA%\devin\mcp_config.json (Windows):
mcp_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wigolo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "wigolo"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YOUR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_YOUR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}
  1. Refresh the MCP server list in Cascade. Replace the placeholders with your own values.

Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf.

Codex

codex mcp add wigolo --env "YOUR_API_KEY=<YOUR_YOUR_API_KEY>" -- npx -y wigolo

Or edit ~/.codex/config.toml directly:

config.toml
[mcp_servers.wigolo]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "wigolo"]
env = { YOUR_API_KEY = "<YOUR_YOUR_API_KEY>" }

Needs Node.js on your computer. Replace the placeholders with your own values.

Gemini CLI

gemini mcp add -e "YOUR_API_KEY=<YOUR_YOUR_API_KEY>" wigolo npx -- -y wigolo

This adds it to the current project. Add -s user to use it everywhere.

Any client

Most clients that start local servers accept this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wigolo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "wigolo"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YOUR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_YOUR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Zed puts servers under context_servers in its settings, with the same command, args and env fields.

Needs Node.js on your computer. Replace the placeholders with your own values.

FAQ

Can I paste mcp.tc/i/wigolo into my MCP client?

No. Wigolo runs on your own computer, started by your client, so it has no web address to connect to. The quick link is the page to share; the install command is npx -y wigolo.

Does Wigolo need an API key?

Yes. It reads YOUR_API_KEY from its environment, and YOUR_API_KEY is a secret. Put the value in your client’s config on your own machine, never in a shared file.

Is Wigolo a remote or a local server?

Local. Your client starts it as a process on your computer with npx -y wigolo, which needs Node.js.

What can Wigolo do?

You can search the web across multiple engines with reranking and scores, fetch a URL as clean markdown, including PDFs and JavaScript pages and crawl sites by BFS, DFS or sitemap with robots.txt respect.

Which clients can use it?

Any client that starts local servers: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Devin Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Zed and others. claude.ai and ChatGPT only connect to remote servers.

Who wrote this page?

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