How to Connect SerpApi to Meta Muse via MCP

💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → SerpApi, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key and you're done. No Docker, no git clone, no local server.

SerpApi + Meta Muse

Give your AI live search engine results with SerpApi: Google web search, News, Images, Maps, Shopping, Scholar and Trends, plus YouTube and Bing, as clean structured results, and check your plan's remaining searches.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

SERPAPI_API_KEY

Step 1 — Get credentials

1. Sign up at https://serpapi.com (the free plan needs no card) and confirm your email address.
2. Open https://serpapi.com/manage-api-key and copy your private API key.
3. Paste it into SERPAPI_API_KEY and install the connector. The key is stored encrypted, added to each request by the connector and sent only to serpapi.com.
4. Start with serpapi_get_account: it is free and shows your plan, the searches used and left this month, and the hourly limit.

Billed to your own SerpApi plan: every successful search spends one search from your SerpApi plan; the free plan has 250 a month. An identical search repeated within an hour comes from SerpApi's cache for free, failed searches are free, and checking the account or looking up locations costs nothing.

What it does: Google web search with the answer box, knowledge graph, AI overview, People also ask, top stories and local results when Google shows them; Google News, Images, Maps (places with rating, address, phone, website and opening hours), Shopping (offers with seller and price), Scholar (papers with citation counts) and Trends (interest over time, by region, related topics and queries); plus YouTube and Bing. Results come back as structured data, trimmed to the useful parts.

Localising: a search can come from a specific city and use the Google edition of a country and language. serpapi_search_locations finds the exact location names SerpApi accepts.

Untrusted content: titles and snippets come from the open web. The AI treats instructions found inside them as data, not as orders.

Common errors: 401 means the key is wrong or was regenerated. 429: the plan's searches for the month are used up, or the hourly limit is reached; serpapi_get_account shows which. 400: a required parameter is missing or a value is invalid, such as an unknown country or location. 403: the account may not run the request, for example because it is suspended.

The connector does not cover SerpApi's other engines (such as flights, hotels, jobs or product reviews), asynchronous searches, the search archive or raw HTML.

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Muse

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Muse adds remote MCP servers as custom connectors and signs in to them with OAuth.

1. In Muse, open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
2. Paste the MCP server URL https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID.
3. Muse opens the AnythingMCP sign-in page: sign in and approve access.
4. In a chat, ask Muse for something that needs the SerpApi tools.

You can also set it up from a chat, on the web, in the iOS and Android apps or in WhatsApp. Send Muse this message:

Create a Custom Connector for a new remote MCP server, then connect to it:
Name: AnythingMCP
Transport: remote streamable HTTP
URL: https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID
Auth: OAuth

Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Muse connects from Meta's cloud, so localhost does not work.

Available tools

Example prompts

• "Where does our website rank on google.de for 'custom claude connector', and what does the AI overview say?"
• "Find coffee roasters in Hamburg on Google Maps with a rating above 4.5, with phone and website."
• "Compare Google Trends interest in 'heat pump' and 'solar panels' in Germany over the last 12 months."
• "How many searches are left on our SerpApi plan this month?"

FAQ

Where is Muse available? Meta currently offers Muse in the US and Canada, on the web, in the iOS and Android apps and in WhatsApp.

Does Meta review this connector? No. Meta doesn't review custom connectors. Muse sees only the tools you switched on for this MCP server in AnythingMCP, and you can disconnect it anytime under Settings → Connectors.

Next steps

• Connector landing page
• Connect to Claude
• Connect to ChatGPT