{"id":"tagny-mcp-server","name":"tagny-mcp-server","homepage":"https://pypi.org/project/tagny-mcp-server/","repo_url":"https://github.com/tagny/tagny-mcp-server","category":"ai-ml","subcategories":[],"tags":["mcp","llm","web-search","url-fetch","sse","python"],"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP server (FastMCP-based) exposing tools for web search (Brave, DuckDuckGo) and web content fetching (URL visible text extraction) plus link extraction from webpages, intended for use with locally served LLMs via SSE transport.","use_cases":["RAG pipelines that need web page content for grounding","Agent workflows that need to browse the web and extract relevant text","Link discovery/crawling assistance within an LLM agent","Lightweight web search augmentation in local LLM environments"],"not_for":["High-reliability production crawling at scale without additional controls (rate limiting, caching, allowlists/denylists)","Handling of sensitive/regulated data without reviewing outbound network and data retention behavior","Strictly offline environments (tools require external network access)"],"best_when":"You want a locally hosted MCP toolset for browsing/search to support interactive LLM agents, and you can tolerate the inherent variability of external web sources.","avoid_when":"You need robust security controls (auth, domain restrictions), strong operational guarantees (SLA, well-defined retries/idempotency), or predictable request/response formats beyond the described tool outputs.","alternatives":["Other MCP web/browsing servers (community)","Direct use of web search APIs (provider SDKs) plus your own content-fetcher","Open-source RAG web loaders (self-hosted)","Headless browser-based scrapers (Playwright/Selenium) where JS rendering is required"],"af_score":57.8,"security_score":36.8,"reliability_score":26.2,"package_type":"mcp_server","discovery_source":["pypi"],"priority":"low","status":"evaluated","version_evaluated":null,"last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T21:43:00.849263+00:00","interface":{"has_rest_api":false,"has_graphql":false,"has_grpc":false,"has_mcp_server":true,"mcp_server_url":null,"has_sdk":false,"sdk_languages":[],"openapi_spec_url":null,"webhooks":false},"auth":{"methods":[],"oauth":false,"scopes":false,"notes":"No authentication mechanisms are described in the README. The MCP server appears to run as a local service over SSE."},"pricing":{"model":null,"free_tier_exists":false,"free_tier_limits":null,"paid_tiers":[],"requires_credit_card":false,"estimated_workload_costs":null,"notes":null},"requirements":{"requires_signup":false,"requires_credit_card":false,"domain_verification":false,"data_residency":[],"compliance":[],"min_contract":null},"agent_readiness":{"af_score":57.8,"security_score":36.8,"reliability_score":26.2,"mcp_server_quality":78.0,"documentation_accuracy":70.0,"error_message_quality":0.0,"error_message_notes":null,"auth_complexity":95.0,"rate_limit_clarity":20.0,"tls_enforcement":70.0,"auth_strength":10.0,"scope_granularity":0.0,"dependency_hygiene":55.0,"secret_handling":60.0,"security_notes":"Security posture can’t be fully verified from the provided README/manifest. No auth is described (suggesting open access if reachable). The server fetches arbitrary external URLs and performs HTML parsing/search, which increases the importance of outbound request controls (allowlists/denylists), SSRF protections, and response size limits. Dependency hygiene and secret-handling practices are not documented in the provided content.","uptime_documented":0.0,"version_stability":45.0,"breaking_changes_history":30.0,"error_recovery":30.0,"idempotency_support":"false","idempotency_notes":null,"pagination_style":"none","retry_guidance_documented":false,"known_agent_gotchas":["Web fetching/search depends on external services (sites and search engines), so results can vary and requests can fail due to network/HTML changes.","No authentication/rate-limit details are documented; agents may need to self-throttle to avoid overload.","Fetching and parsing arbitrary URLs can produce unpredictable HTML/redirect behaviors; consider URL allowlists/denylists in the calling agent."]}}