LinkupPlatform Linkup MCP server

Linkup MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web search and page fetching capabilities through Linkup's advanced API. This server enables AI assistants like Claude to perform intelligent web searches with natural language queries and fetch content from any webpage, accessing real-time information from trusted sources across the web.

Features

• 🔍 Real-time Web Search: Search the web for current information, news, and data
• 🧠 Deep Research: Start long-running, multi-source research tasks and poll for results
• 🌐 Page Fetching: Fetch and extract content from any webpage
• 🎯 Natural Language Queries: Use full questions for best results
• 📊 Flexible Search Depth:
• standard - For queries with direct answers
• deep - For complex research requiring analysis across multiple sources
• 🎯 Result Filtering: Restrict by domain (includeDomains / excludeDomains), date range (fromDate / toDate), and maxResults
• 🖼️ Image Results: Optional includeImages for search and extractImages for fetch
• 🖥️ JavaScript Rendering: Optional JS rendering for dynamic content
• 📄 Raw HTML: Optional includeRawHtml for fetch when you need the unprocessed page
• ⚡ Fast: Powered by Linkup's optimized infrastructure

Installation

• Cursor, VSCode, Claude Code, Codex, or another MCP compatible client
• Linkup API key

Getting Your API Key

1. Create a Linkup account for free at app.linkup.so
2. Copy the API key from your dashboard

Remote MCP Server (recommended)

The hosted Linkup MCP server uses the Streamable HTTP transport. If your client supports remote HTTP MCP servers, you can reference the hosted endpoint directly.

If your client supports custom HTTP headers, prefer sending your API key in Authorization: Bearer LINKUPAPIKEY instead of putting it in the URL. The ?apiKey=... query parameter remains supported for clients that cannot send custom headers.

Cursor

In your ~/.cursor/mcp.json file, add the following:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    // ... other MCP servers
    "linkup": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.linkup.so/mcp?apiKey=LINKUP_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}

VSCode

Add this to your VS Code MCP config file. See VS Code MCP docs for more info.

{
  "servers": {
    // ... other MCP servers
    "linkup": {
      "url": "https://mcp.linkup.so/mcp?apiKey=LINKUP_API_KEY",
      "type": "http"
    }
  }
}

Codex

Codex supports both remote HTTP MCP servers and custom HTTP headers via config.toml.

Using a bearer token from the environment:

[mcp_servers.linkup]
url = "https://mcp.linkup.so/mcp"
bearer_token_env_var = "LINKUP_API_KEY"
enabled = true

Or, if you prefer to keep using the query parameter:

[mcp_servers.linkup]
url = "https://mcp.linkup.so/mcp?apiKey=LINKUP_API_KEY"
enabled = true

MCP Bundle (recommended for Claude Desktop)

Download the pre-built MCP bundle, a self-contained package that works across compatible MCP clients such as Claude Desktop. MCP Bundles are developed by Anthropic. See the MCP Bundles repository for more information.

Quick Download:

curl -L -o linkup-mcp-server.mcpb https://github.com/LinkupPlatform/linkup-mcp-server/releases/latest/download/linkup-mcp-server.mcpb

Installation:

1. Download linkup-mcp-server.mcpb from releases (or use the curl command above)
2. Click on the file to install
3. Configure your API key when prompted

Local MCP Server

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.