Wigolo

Q: 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.

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

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npx -y wigolo

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YOUR_API_KEY listing.env.secret Your API key for the service

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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.

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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

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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

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Claude Code

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

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

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>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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.

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Add to Cursor a11y.new_tab

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

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{
  "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:

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{
  "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

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>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Refresh the MCP server list in Cascade. Replace the placeholders with your own values.

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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.

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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?

mcp.tc's robot read Wigolo's public metadata (its package and repository pages), and an AI model drafted the text from it. A person reviews anything the checks can't confirm. The text can still be wrong, so if you spot a mistake, use Report this listing on this page.

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[![Wigolo on mcp.tc](https://mcp.tc/i/wigolo/badge.svg)](https://mcp.tc/i/wigolo)

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<a href="https://mcp.tc/i/wigolo"><img src="https://mcp.tc/i/wigolo/badge.svg" alt="Wigolo on mcp.tc" height="20"></a>

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<script src="https://mcp.tc/w/wigolo.js" async></script>

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<iframe src="https://mcp.tc/embed/wigolo" title="Wigolo on mcp.tc" width="420" height="200" loading="lazy" allow="clipboard-write" style="border:0;border-radius:8px;max-width:100%"></iframe>

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Claude Code

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VS Code

Devin Desktop

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Gemini CLI

Any client

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