Any public URL → clean readable markdown: the article/main content without nav, ads or boilerplate, plus title, author, date, word count and links. PDFs too. Fetches the page (redirects followed, public internet only), extracts the main content with Mozilla Readability and converts it to markdown. P
All DNS for a domain — A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, CAA, SOA — plus SPF and DMARC parsed and graded, so an agent knows where a domain points and whether its email can be spoofed. Queried live against public resolvers (Cloudflare, Google, Quad9). Email grade: SPF present and ending in -all/~all, DMAR
Who registered a domain and when: registrar, creation/expiry dates, age, days to expiry, status locks, nameservers — or that it looks available to register. Uses RDAP, the registries' official successor to WHOIS (rdap.org bootstrap). A domain with no RDAP record and no DNS is reported as likely avai
A site's TLS certificate: issuer, validity, days until expiry, SANs, protocol, cipher, chain and whether browsers trust it. Live TLS handshake to the host. Flags expired, expiring (< 14 days), untrusted or name-mismatched certificates. Price: $0.001 per call (10 free/day; after that a payment-requir
Is a site up and how is it served: status, full redirect chain, timings (DNS/TLS/first byte/total), server, CDN, caching, compression, and a graded security-header check (HSTS, CSP, frame, sniffing…). One real GET from our server. The security grade counts HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Opti
May I crawl this? Checks a URL against the site's robots.txt for any user-agent, lists sitemaps and crawl-delay, and reports which AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended…) the site blocks. Standard robots.txt matching (longest match wins, Allow beats Disallow on ties, * and $
Will this email address work? Syntax, domain MX records, disposable/throwaway provider detection, role address (info@, admin@) and free-mail provider — without sending anything. No SMTP probing (that gets servers blacklisted); the verdict is from syntax, live MX lookup and a maintained list of ~100k
Wikipedia in any language: search a topic and get the best article's summary, description, thumbnail and link — or the full article text. Search + REST summary from Wikipedia. full=true returns the article as plain text (sections kept), capped by max_chars. Disambiguation pages are flagged with alte
Search arXiv research papers by keywords, author or category — newest or most relevant — with abstracts, authors, dates and PDF links. arXiv's official API. query supports arXiv syntax (ti:, au:, abs:, cat:cs.AI, AND/OR). Paced to arXiv's one-request-per-3-seconds policy and cached, so repeated quer
Any npm, PyPI or crates.io package: latest version and release date, license, downloads, maintainers, repo, dependency count, deprecation — to pick or vet a dependency. Straight from each registry (plus npm and pypistats download counts). Flags deprecated packages and ones with no release in 2+ year
A GitHub repository at a glance: stars, forks, open issues, last commit, latest release, license, languages, contributors, archived — is it alive and trustworthy? From the GitHub REST API. "activity" summarizes days since last push and last release so an agent can judge whether a project is maintain
Search Hacker News stories and comments by keyword, sorted by relevance or date, filtered by time window and minimum points — what developers are saying about anything. Algolia's official HN search. Returns title, url, points, comment count, author, date and the HN discussion link. Price: $0.001 per
Resolve a DOI — or search a paper title — to full citation metadata: title, authors, journal, year, citations count, publisher, license, and a ready-made APA/BibTeX citation. Crossref's open metadata (150M+ works). Search mode returns the top matches for a title/author query. When to use: For citati
Find books by title, author, subject or ISBN: first published year, editions, ISBNs, page count, ratings, subjects and cover image. Open Library (Internet Archive) catalogue of 30M+ titles. Price: $0.001 per call (10 free/day; after that a payment-required result lists x402 options). Errors: returns
FAQ
Questions
How do I install MAD Synapse · Web & Research?
Copy the http config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.
Does MAD Synapse · Web & Research need an API key?
No required environment variable is listed on this record.
What transport does MAD Synapse · Web & Research use?
MAD Synapse · Web & Research is reached over HTTP.
When was MAD Synapse · Web & Research last checked?
Last checked 2026-11-08. Read the web (page text, DNS, WHOIS, TLS, uptime) + research (Wikipedia, arXiv, GitHub, packages).
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README is not crawled yet. No repository on file.
Read the web (page text, DNS, WHOIS, TLS, uptime) + research (Wikipedia, arXiv, GitHub, packages).
