Google Jobs MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides Google Jobs search capabilities via SerpAPI integration. Features multi-language support, flexible search parameters, and smart error handling.

Full localization support for English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean with automatic language detection and fallback.

Comprehensive search parameters including:

• Job title and keywords
• Location with radius filtering
• Employment type (full-time, part-time, etc.)
• Salary range filters
• Post date filtering
• Results sorting

• Comprehensive input validation
• Helpful error messages and suggestions
• Automatic search refinement suggestions
• Rate limit handling

• Detailed job information formatting
• Company benefits and highlights
• Salary information when available
• Direct application links
• Job posting timestamps

• Pagination support
• Multiple sorting options
• Geographic radius search
• Employment type filtering

Before getting started, you'll need to obtain a SERP API key:

1. Visit SERP API website and create an account

2. After registration, go to your Dashboard:

   • Locate the "API Key" section
   • Copy your API key
   • New users get 100 free API calls

3. API Usage Details:

   • Free tier: 100 searches per month
   • Paid plans start at $50/month for 5000 searches
   • Billing based on successful API calls
   • Multiple payment methods: Credit Card, PayPal, etc.

4. Usage Limits:

   • Request Rate: 2 requests/second
   • IP Restrictions: None
   • Concurrent Requests: 5
   • Response Cache Time: 1 hour

Click to view my configuration solution 👉 modelcontextprotocol/servers#76

1. Install dependencies:

npm install

2. Configure environment: Modify your claude_desktop_config.json with the following content (adjust paths according to your system):

{
  "google-jobs": {
    "command": "D:\\Program\\nvm\\node.exe",
    "args": ["D:\\github_repository\\path_to\\dist\\index.js"],
    "env": {
      "SERP_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
    }
  }
}

3. Build the server:

npm run build

4. Start the server:

npm start

1. API Key Issues:

• Verify key in configuration
• Check key status in SERP API dashboard
• Confirm key has remaining quota

2. Search Issues:

• Validate search parameters format
• Check network connectivity
• Verify country/language code support

To install Google Jobs for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @chanmeng666/google-jobs-server --client claude

@chanmeng666/google-jobs-server

# Using npm
npm i @chanmeng666/google-jobs-server
# or
npm install @chanmeng666/google-jobs-server

# Using yarn
yarn add @chanmeng666/google-jobs-server

# Using pnpm
pnpm add @chanmeng666/google-jobs-server

The evals package loads an mcp client that then runs the index.ts file, so there is no need to rebuild between tests. You can load environment variables by prefixing the npx command. Full documentation can be found here.

OPENAI_API_KEY=your-key  npx mcp-eval src/evals/evals.ts src/index.ts

The server implements the Model Context Protocol and exposes a job search tool with the following parameters:

• query: Search query string (required)
• location: Job location (optional)
• posted_age: Post date filter (optional)
• employment_type: Job type filter (optional)
• salary: Salary range filter (optional)
• radius: Geographic search radius (optional)
• hl: Language code (optional)
• page: Pagination number (optional)
• sort_by: Sort order (optional)

# Run in development mode
npm run dev

# Run type checking
npm run typecheck

# Build for production
npm run build

This project is MIT licensed.

Created and maintained by Chan Meng.