Enables running the ScrAPI MCP server in a containerized environment with a pre-built Docker image for easy deployment
Converts scraped web content into Markdown format, ideal when text content of a webpage is important rather than structural information
Provides package distribution through npm registry, allowing the server to be installed and run via npx
Displays status badges for license, npm downloads, and Docker pulls to indicate the project's activity and adoption
ScrAPI MCP Server
MCP server for using ScrAPI to scrape web pages.
ScrAPI is your ultimate web scraping solution, offering powerful, reliable, and easy-to-use features to extract data from any website effortlessly.
Tools
scrape_url_html
- Use a URL to scrape a website using the ScrAPI service and retrieve the result as HTML. Use this for scraping website content that is difficult to access because of bot detection, captchas or even geolocation restrictions. The result will be in HTML which is preferable if advanced parsing is required.
- Input:
url
(string) - Returns: HTML content of the URL
scrape_url_markdown
- Use a URL to scrape a website using the ScrAPI service and retrieve the result as Markdown. Use this for scraping website content that is difficult to access because of bot detection, captchas or even geolocation restrictions. The result will be in Markdown which is preferable if the text content of the webpage is important and not the structural information of the page.
- Input:
url
(string) - Returns: Markdown content of the URL
Setup
API Key (optional)
Optionally get an API key from the ScrAPI website.
Without an API key you will be limited to one concurrent call and twenty free calls per day with minimal queuing capabilities.
Cloud Server
The ScrAPI MCP Server is also available in the cloud over SSE at https://api.scrapi.dev/sse
Cloud MCP servers are not widely supported yet but you can access this directly from your own custom clients or use MCP Inspector to test it. There is currently no facility to pass through your API key when connecting to the cloud MCP server.
Usage with Claude Desktop
Add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json
:
Docker
NPX
Build
Docker build:
License
This MCP server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.
hybrid server
The server is able to function both locally and remotely, depending on the configuration or use case.
A server that enables web scraping of difficult-to-access websites affected by bot detection, captchas, or geolocation restrictions, returning results in either HTML or Markdown format.
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