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Website Scraper MCP Server

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Website Scraper

A command-line tool and MCP server for scraping websites and converting HTML to Markdown.

Features

  • Extracts meaningful content from web pages using Mozilla's Readability library (the same engine used in Firefox's Reader View)
  • Converts clean HTML to high-quality Markdown with TurndownService
  • Securely handles HTML by removing potentially harmful script tags
  • Works as both a command-line tool and an MCP server
  • Supports direct conversion of local HTML files to Markdown

Installation

# Install dependencies npm install # Build the project npm run build # Optionally, install globally npm install -g .

Usage

CLI Mode

# Print output to console scrape https://example.com # Save output to a file scrape https://example.com output.md # Convert a local HTML file to Markdown scrape --html-file input.html # Convert a local HTML file and save output to a file scrape --html-file input.html output.md # Show help scrape --help # Or run via npm script npm run start:cli -- https://example.com

MCP Server Mode

This tool can be used as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server:

# Start in MCP server mode npm start

Code Structure

  • src/index.ts - Core functionality and MCP server implementation
  • src/cli.ts - Command-line interface implementation
  • src/data_processing.ts - HTML to Markdown conversion functionality

API

The tool exports the following functions:

// Scrape a website and convert to Markdown import { scrapeToMarkdown } from './build/index.js'; // Convert HTML string to Markdown directly import { htmlToMarkdown } from './build/data_processing.js'; async function example() { // Web scraping const markdown = await scrapeToMarkdown('https://example.com'); console.log(markdown); // Direct HTML conversion const html = '<h1>Hello World</h1><p>This is <strong>bold</strong> text.</p>'; const md = htmlToMarkdown(html); console.log(md); }

License

ISC

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hybrid server

The server is able to function both locally and remotely, depending on the configuration or use case.

An MCP server that extracts meaningful content from websites and converts HTML to high-quality Markdown, using Mozilla's Readability engine.

  1. Features
    1. Installation
      1. Usage
        1. CLI Mode
        2. MCP Server Mode
      2. Code Structure
        1. API
          1. License

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