web-search-plus-mcp 3.4.0

web-search-plus-mcp 3.4 release notes

web-search-plus-mcp 3.4.0 packages the portable Web Search Plus v3.4.0 engine for MCP clients. It adds one optional source-search provider without changing the stable two-tool MCP surface.

Highlights

• add Octen source search through Monid's documented HTTP API;
• keep Octen explicit-only by default (auto_allow=false), outside automatic routing and fallback;
• support native recency plus include/exclude-domain filters;
• return ranked source links and highlights while disabling full-content retrieval;
• report Provider SDK freshness support truthfully for discovered search providers.

Octen via Monid

Octen supplies the search results. Monid provides API access and billing. Configure a MONID_API_KEY from Monid, ensure the Monid wallet has balance, and request Octen explicitly:

{
  "query": "recent vector database research",
  "provider": "octen",
  "freshness": "month"
}

Access and billing use Monid's prepaid wallet; see Monid for current pricing and terms. Web Search Plus makes no free-tier, price, latency, quality, availability, partnership, or endorsement claim for Octen or Monid.

Security and scope

The adapter sends credentials only to Monid's fixed HTTPS API origin, rejects redirects, caps response bodies at 8 MiB, and sanitizes upstream failures. Octen answer, Broad Search, image/video, and full-content modes remain outside this source-only integration.

Stable MCP surface

The server still exposes exactly two tools:

• web_search
• web_extract

Their names, arguments, and legacy result fields remain compatible. No configuration migration is required. Existing installations behave as before unless an operator adds MONID_API_KEY and explicitly requests provider="octen" or deliberately opts Octen into automatic routing.

Hound / Master-Fetch attribution

Hound / Master-Fetch remains an independent MIT-licensed project created and maintained by Bishesh Bhandari (dondai1234). Web Search Plus MCP ships only its own client adapter and connects to a separately installed loopback Hound sidecar; Hound is not bundled, forked, or claimed as Robby's code.

Upgrade

pip install --upgrade "web-search-plus-mcp==3.4.0"

Or pin the version in an MCP host configuration:

{
  "command": "uvx",
  "args": ["web-search-plus-mcp==3.4.0"]
}