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github.com/patwallsSearch1Updated 2d ago
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About superhighway-mcp

An archived MCP server for web, news, and image search, URL scraping, and research. It is retired and no longer works, so the repository is for reference only.

Key features

  1. 01Web search
  2. 02News search
  3. 03Image search
  4. 04URL scraping
  5. 05Research

Use cases

  1. 01Reference the former search tool set
  2. 02Review its x402 payment approach

MCP support

It was an MCP server exposing search, news, image, scrape, and research tools to MCP clients. The service has been shut down.

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

mcp.json · Universal config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "patwalls-superhighway": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "superhighway-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Run commandnpx -y superhighway-mcp

Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.

Packages
npmsuperhighway-mcp1.2.0

Tools

5

Saved tool list · updated 2d ago

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
limitnumberNoMax results, 1-20 (default 5).
querystringYesThe search query.

Details

From the project README

⚠️ Retired 2026-10-26. Superhighway has been shut down: superhighway.walls.sh returns 410 Gone, so nothing in this repo works any more. The repo is archived and kept for reference only.

superhighway-mcp

Web search for AI agents that pays for itself.

An MCP server that gives any MCP-speaking agent (Claude Desktop, etc.) a real-time web search tool. Under the hood it pays Superhighway $0.001 per search in USDC via the x402 protocol, using your wallet — no API key, no signup, no human in the loop.

Install

Add to your MCP client config (e.g. Claude Desktop's claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "superhighway": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:patwalls/superhighway-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "AGENT_PRIVATE_KEY": "0xYOUR_FUNDED_BASE_WALLET_KEY",
        "X402_NETWORK": "base"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart your client. The agent now has three tools that do the whole search job — web_search (live, ranked results), news_search (recent articles with dates), and scrape (read any URL as clean markdown). Find it, read it, pay per call.

Wallet

AGENT_PRIVATE_KEY is a wallet you control, funded with a little USDC on Base (each search costs $0.001; gas is covered by the facilitator, so you don't need ETH). The key only ever signs tiny USDC payments — keep it to a small balance.

Want to try free first? Set X402_NETWORK=base-sepolia and fund the wallet from a Base Sepolia faucet to pay in test USDC.

What you get

web_search (web) and news_search (recent news) each return results as JSON:

{ "query": "...", "count": 5, "results": [ { "title": "...", "url": "...", "description": "..." } ] }

Powered by Superhighway — the web-search API agents pay for.

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