📊 Expose Bright Data web search tools to Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients
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Description
Quick overview
This workflow exposes a bearer-protected MCP server that gives Claude, Cursor, or other MCP clients web search and page-reading tools backed by Bright Data (Google search, Google AI Overview, People Also Ask questions, Bing search, Bing news, and a markdown page reader).
How it works
- Publishes an MCP server endpoint protected with bearer authentication.
- Sends Google search requests to Bright Data and returns only trimmed organic result fields (rank, title, link, description, source).
- Fetches Google’s AI Overview for a query via Bright Data and returns the overview text plus cited references.
- Retrieves Google “People Also Ask” related questions via Bright Data and returns the ranked question list.
- Runs Bing web search and Bing News search via Bright Data and returns trimmed result fields with direct links.
- Reads any given URL through Bright Data’s Web Unlocker and returns the page content as markdown.
- Optionally lets you test the MCP tools in n8n Chat using an OpenAI Chat Model-powered agent that calls the same MCP server.
Setup
- Create a Bright Data API key and add it to an HTTP Header Auth credential (Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY) used by all six Bright Data tool requests.
- Ensure your Bright Data zones exist and match the workflow settings (serp_api1 for searches and web_unlocker1 for page reads), or update the zone values in the tool configurations.
- Add a Bearer Auth credential to the MCP Server Trigger and configure the same token in your MCP client.
- If you use the in-workflow test agent, add OpenAI credentials and update the MCP client endpoint URL (defaults to http://localhost:5678/mcp/bright-data-web) to match where n8n is reachable.
🔗 Nodes Used
HTTP Request, Execute Workflow Trigger, AI Agent, OpenAI Chat Model, Simple Memory, Call n8n Workflow Tool
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File