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You.com Web Access & AI

Connects MCP clients to hosted You.com search, content, finance, discovery, and research tools.

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Install You.com Web Access & AI

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STDIONode.js
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "you-com-web-access-ai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@youdotcom-oss/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config, merge this into mcpServers, then fully quit and reopen Claude Desktop.

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Overview

You.com Web Access & AI MCP server connects MCP clients to hosted You.com APIs for web search, content extraction, discovery, finance, research, and balance queries. It runs as an npx STDIO bridge or through the hosted streamable HTTP endpoint, so tool logic remains remote rather than being registered locally. Use it when an agent needs You.com web access and the client supports MCP; the free profile provides keyless access to a smaller tool set.

Use cases

  • Search the web from an MCP-compatible agent
  • Extract content from web pages
  • Discover sources or topics through You.com
  • Query finance or research tools with explicit tool selection

Key features

  • Hosted You.com MCP endpoint
  • STDIO bridge via npx
  • Optional streamable HTTP access
  • Keyless free profile
  • Configurable tool scoping
  • Search and content extraction tools

Tools6

What You.com Web Access & AI lets your agent do. Expand a tool for its parameters.

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Tools exposed6Callable tools this server registers over MCP.
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How You.com Web Access & AI works

What You.com Web Access & AI does

You.com Web Access & AI exposes hosted You.com capabilities to MCP-compatible clients. The available tools cover web search, page content retrieval, account balance checks, discovery, finance, and research. Tool availability depends on the endpoint configuration: the default hosted endpoint provides you-search, you-contents, you-balance, and you-discover, while you-finance and you-research can be requested explicitly.

The package is a transport bridge, not a local implementation of the You.com APIs. It does not register tool handlers or include REST request logic. Instead, it forwards MCP traffic from a local STDIO process to https://api.you.com/mcp.

How it works

Run the package with npx @youdotcom-oss/mcp and configure the resulting process in an MCP client. The bridge sends requests to the hosted You.com MCP server. Clients that support remote MCP can skip the local process and connect directly to the streamable HTTP endpoint.

Authenticated requests use a You.com API key as a Bearer token. A keyless free profile is also available. The free profile changes the remote URL to include profile=free and exposes you-search and you-discover; it takes precedence over custom tool selection.

Setup and configuration

Install the package with npx @youdotcom-oss/mcp, or add it to a project with bun add @youdotcom-oss/mcp. For a free configuration, set YDC_PROFILE to free in the MCP client environment. For authenticated access, set YDC_API_KEY to the key issued through You.com.

YDC_ALLOWED_TOOLS accepts a comma-separated list of hosted tool IDs when a scoped tool set is needed. Examples include selecting only you-finance, or combining you-search with you-finance. YDC_PROFILE overrides this setting when both are present.

Remote-capable clients can use https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free for free access. Authenticated remote access uses https://api.you.com/mcp with an Authorization Bearer header.

Tools and capabilities

The You.com Web Access & AI MCP server can expose these hosted tools:

  • you-search for web search requests.
  • you-contents for content extraction.
  • you-balance for balance information.
  • you-discover for discovery requests.
  • you-finance for finance-related requests when selected.
  • you-research for research requests when selected.

The default endpoint and free profile do not expose the same set. Tool scoping is controlled by the hosted URL or the corresponding environment configuration.

Limitations and notes

The You.com Web Access & AI MCP server depends on the hosted endpoint for its tools and does not provide an offline or locally implemented API layer.

The package communicates through STDIO when launched with npx; remote use requires an MCP client that supports streamable HTTP. The project is licensed under MIT.

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Frequently Asked Questions about You.com Web Access & AI

You.com Web Access & AI is an MCP server that connects MCP clients to hosted You.com APIs through a remote MCP endpoint or an npx STDIO bridge. Its main tools are you-search, you-contents, you-balance, you-discover, you-finance, and you-research, with availability depending on profile and tool selection.

Run `npx @youdotcom-oss/mcp` from your MCP client configuration, or install it with `bun add @youdotcom-oss/mcp`. Configure the resulting STDIO process with the client-specific MCP settings.

Yes, You.com Web Access & AI works with Cursor through its MCP configuration. Add the package as a command with `npx @youdotcom-oss/mcp` and set `YDC_PROFILE=free` for the keyless profile, or provide `YDC_API_KEY` for authenticated access.

Yes, use the `free` profile without an API key or signup. Set `YDC_PROFILE` to `free`, or connect to `https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free`; this profile exposes `you-search` and `you-discover`.

Set `YDC_ALLOWED_TOOLS` to a comma-separated list of hosted tool IDs, or add a `tools` query parameter to the remote endpoint. The free profile overrides custom tool selection and exposes only its supported tools.

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