Vercel MCP Web Crawler

This is a production-ready, ultra-lightweight Web Crawling Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. It is built with TypeScript and Next.js (App Router), specifically optimized for deployment on Vercel's Free Tier.

Features

• No Heavy Headless Browsers: Uses fetch, cheerio, linkedom, @mozilla/readability, and turndown for lightweight and fast scraping.

• Vercel Free Tier Ready: Strict execution limits via AbortController (4s timeout per request) and concurrency control with p-limit.

• MCP Server over HTTP: Fully compatible with remote HTTP/SSE Model Context Protocol endpoint standards using @modelcontextprotocol/sdk.

Related MCP server: Enhanced Fetch MCP

Available Tools

1. scrape_page: Fetch URL and convert to clean Markdown. Fallbacks to https://r.jina.ai/<url>.

2. crawl_domain: Recursively crawl same-domain internal links (max 10 pages).

3. extract_metadata: Parse title, meta descriptions, OpenGraph tags, canonical links, and JSON-LD.

4. search_and_crawl: Fetch web search results, isolate top target links, and concurrently scrape them.

Setup & Deployment

1. Deploy to Vercel: Push this repository to GitHub and import it into Vercel.

2. Environment: No environment variables are required.

Client Configuration

To connect Cursor, Windsurf, or Claude Code to your deployed MCP server, you can use the built-in MCP HTTP Client support. Some editors support providing a direct HTTP/SSE endpoint.

Claude Code / Cursor / Windsurf Configuration Snippet

In your MCP client configuration (e.g., mcp.json or .claude_code/config.json), use the sse transport:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vercel-web-crawler": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/client", "--url", "https://<your-vercel-domain>.vercel.app/api/mcp"],
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}

Note: Since standard MCP config uses local commands, you might need an SSE client adapter if your editor doesn't support direct URL configurations. Claude Desktop recently added standard Server-Sent Events (SSE) support or you can use mcp-proxy scripts to bridge stdin to SSE.

If your editor natively supports Remote SSE MCP Servers, just provide the endpoint: SSE Endpoint: https://<your-vercel-domain>.vercel.app/api/mcp