CrustAPI Google + LinkedIn Data

com.crustapiPublished by crustapi.comv0.3.2Updated Oct 24, 2026

Live Google + public LinkedIn data: search, maps, profiles, companies, jobs. Pay only for results.

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Overview

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Local MCP server that gives an assistant live Google search, maps, news, reviews and public LinkedIn profile, company and job data through CrustAPI.

What you can do
Run Google searches across web, maps, places, news, shopping, images, videos, scholar, patents and autocomplete through one search tool with a type selector, including location and result limits for maps queries. Fetch any webpage as clean text, metadata and JSON-LD for retrieval use. Pull Google reviews for a business by place ID or name query. Look up public LinkedIn profiles, companies, posts and jobs, and run people searches with optional full-profile enrichment. All responses come back as structured JSON.
When to use it
Useful when an assistant needs current web, local business or public LinkedIn information inside a chat, for example prospect research, competitor or job-market checks, review summaries, or turning a page into clean text for analysis.
Requirements
Runs locally over stdio, typically launched with npx from the crustapi-mcp npm package; Node 18 or newer is required. A CrustAPI API key is required in the CRUSTAPI_API_KEY environment variable and is sent as the x-api-key header. Network access to the CrustAPI hosted endpoints is needed; CRUSTAPI_BASE_URL can override the default base URL.
Before you install
The API key is a secret passed in the client configuration; keep it out of shared files. Usage is metered in credits, with a free tier of 3,000 credits per month and payment for successful results, so heavy use can incur cost. Queries, URLs and LinkedIn identifiers are sent to the third-party CrustAPI service. LinkedIn data is limited to public information.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open CrustAPI Google + LinkedIn Data in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

CrustAPI MCP server

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Give any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Claude Code) live Google and public LinkedIn data. It calls the hosted CrustAPI /v1/search and /v1/linkedin endpoints.

Tools

  • search covers the whole Google menu behind one tool. Pick the surface with type: web, maps, places, news, shopping, images, videos, scholar, patents, autocomplete.
  • scrape_webpage fetches any URL as clean text + metadata + JSON-LD (RAG-ready).
  • get_reviews pulls Google reviews for a business (by placeId/cid/fid or a name query).
  • linkedin covers public LinkedIn data behind one tool. Pick the surface with type: profile, company, posts, jobs, or search (people search). Add enrich=true on people search to get each person's full profile.

You only pay for successful results; empty results are free. Get a free key (3,000 credits/month, no card) at https://crustapi.com.

Installation

Recommended: npx, nothing to install.

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

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "crustapi": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "crustapi-mcp"],      "env": { "CRUSTAPI_API_KEY": "key_live_xxxx" }    }  }}

Restart the client and the four tools appear. Requires Node 18+.

From source

bash
npm install
json
{  "mcpServers": {    "crustapi": {      "command": "node",      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/crustapi-mcp/server.mjs"],      "env": { "CRUSTAPI_API_KEY": "key_live_xxxx" }    }  }}

Env

varpurpose
CRUSTAPI_API_KEYyour CrustAPI key, sent as x-api-key (required)
CRUSTAPI_BASE_URLdefaults to https://crustapi.com; point at a local URL for testing

Usage

  • search(type="web", q="best serp api 2026")
  • search(type="maps", q="dentists", location="Miami, FL", limit=20)
  • search(type="news", q="openai")
  • scrape_webpage(url="https://example.com/pricing", includeMarkdown=true)
  • get_reviews(q="Blue Bottle Coffee", sortBy="newest")
  • linkedin(type="profile", url="https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates")
  • linkedin(type="search", keywords="head of growth fintech", enrich=true)

Every response is stable, structured JSON.

Test it

bash
CRUSTAPI_API_KEY=key_live_xxxx node test-client.mjs

This spawns the server over stdio, lists the tools, and calls one.

Source: README.md at commit 389d192

Tools

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SourceWeft has not started this package in its sandbox yet, so its tools are not known.

Version history

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  1. v0.3.2LatestSep 16, 2026

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