Serper for AI agents
Serper delivers real-time Google search results, place data, and webpage extraction through a structured API. Developers and researchers use it to power search-driven features and SEO tools. Connect it once through Arc0, and your agent, or Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, can use it through one MCP endpoint, limited to what each user approved.
What agents do in Serper.
Batch search multiple keywords
Run a batch of web searches at once to pull ranking data for a list of target keywords.
Scrape a webpage's content
Extract the readable content of a webpage for summarizing or feeding into another workflow.
Check reviews for a place listing
Pull place reviews for a business location before drafting a competitive or reputation summary.
11 Serper actions, graded by risk.
Every Serper action is tagged read, write or destructive, so one policy covers the whole app and new actions inherit the right default.
read
10Look things up. Allowed by default.
- serper.search_webSearch the Web
- serper.search_mapsSearch Maps
- serper.search_newsSearch News
- serper.search_imagesSearch Images
- serper.list_locationsList Locations
- serper.search_scholarSearch Scholar
- serper.search_shoppingSearch Shopping
- serper.list_place_reviewsList Place Reviews
- serper.get_search_suggestionsGet Search Suggestions
- serper.scrape_webpageScrape Webpage
write
1Create and change things. Allow, or ask the user first.
- serper.batch_search_webBatch Search the Web
destructive
0Delete, cancel or archive. Ask first, or deny outright.
- No destructive actions.
Serper in three steps.
- 01Your users connect SerperThey add their Serper api key on Arc0 Connect, under your brand. It goes straight into the vault.
- 02You set the rulesReads run, and writes like “batch Search the Web” can wait for the user to approve.
- 03Any agent can actYour agent calls Serper through the Arc0 SDK or MCP, and so can Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Every call lands on the audit log.
await arc0.policies.set('serper', { read: 'allow', write: 'ask', // batch_search_web destructive: 'deny', }) # Claude Code: the same connection, one URL $ claude mcp add --transport http arc0 \ https://mcp.arc0.ai/u/u_8f2
How Serper connects.
Users add their Serper api key on Arc0 Connect. It is encrypted in the vault, never shown to the model, and each user can rotate or revoke it at any time.
The same Serper connection serves your agent over MCP and your own backend over REST and the proxy, so a user connects once. How Arc0 handles credentials →
- AUTH
- API key
- CREDENTIALS
- Per-tenant encrypted vault
- MODEL SEES
- Results only, never credentials
- AUDIT LOG
- Every call, on every plan
Use Serper from any agent.
ClaudeChatGPTCursor
Codex
VS CodeOpenAI Agents SDKClaude Agent SDK
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Serper and Arc0, answered.
Can I use Serper with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?
Yes. Connect Serper to Arc0 once, then add your Arc0 MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or any other remote-MCP client. Each assistant only gets the Serper actions you allow.
How do users connect Serper?
Users add their Serper api key on Arc0 Connect. It is encrypted in the vault, never shown to the model, and each user can rotate or revoke it at any time.
Which Serper actions can my agent take?
11 in total: 10 read, 1 write and 0 destructive, such as “batch Search the Web”. Your policies decide which of them each agent may call.
Can I make my agent read-only in Serper?
Yes. Allow read actions and deny writes in the Serper policy. Your agent can still look things up, and any write it attempts is blocked and logged.
Can my own backend call Serper too?
Yes. The same Serper connection is available over REST and through the Arc0 proxy, so your product and your agent share one connection per user.
Plug Serper into your agent.
Your users connect Serper once, under your brand. Your agent gets 11 actions behind your policies, with every call on the record.
Free to build · MCP + REST · Audit log on every plan