🚀 MCP Stealth Browser (mcp-stealth-browser)

The High-Performance Stealth Web Browsing & Search MCP Server for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf & Cline.
Bypasses Cloudflare Turnstile, anti-bot shields, and JavaScript SPAs with dual-engine TLS/Playwright impersonation, dynamic residential proxy rotation, and token-optimized semantic Markdown extraction.

⚡ Why mcp-stealth-browser?

Standard web fetch and browser MCP servers (@modelcontextprotocol/server-fetch, playwright-mcp) fail on 70%+ of modern websites:

• ❌ Cloudflare & Anti-Bot Blocking: Hit with 403 Forbidden or Just a moment... CAPTCHA loops.

• ❌ Token Window Explosion: Dump raw HTML with bloated scripts, SVGs, and cookie modals, wasting 100k+ tokens.

• ❌ IP Rate-Limits: Repeated queries from data center IPs get permanently blocked.

• ❌ No Native Multi-Engine Web Search: Requires expensive Bing/Google API keys to search the web.

🌟 What mcp-stealth-browser solves:

• ✅ Dual-Engine Cascade: Fast TLS/JA4 browser impersonation (<400ms) with auto-escalation to headless Playwright when Cloudflare Turnstile or DataDome is detected.

• ✅ Built-in Real-Time Web Search: stealth_search crawls Google & DuckDuckGo simultaneously with zero API keys.

• ✅ Token-Optimized Markdown: Strips navigation, headers, footers, and scripts, compressing content by 80-95% while preserving tables, headings, and code snippets.

• ✅ Sticky Residential Proxy Pool: Dynamic residential proxy rotation with 10-30 minute sticky IP sessions and automatic block recovery.

• ✅ Universal 1-Click Integration: Drop-in configuration for Claude Desktop, Cursor IDE, Windsurf, and Cline.

Related MCP server: Stealth Browser MCP Server

🛠️ MCP Tools Exposed

📦 Quick Start & Configuration

1. Install via pip or uv

pip install mcp-stealth-browser
# Optional: Install Playwright for heavy Turnstile challenge solving
playwright install chromium

2. Configure in Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stealth-browser": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-stealth-browser"],
      "env": {
        "ROTA_PROXY_URL": "http://user:pass@proxy.ropond.com:8080"
      }
    }
  }
}

3. Configure in Cursor IDE

Add to .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stealth-browser": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "mcp_stealth_browser"],
      "env": {
        "ROTA_PROXY_URL": "http://user:pass@proxy.ropond.com:8080"
      }
    }
  }
}

🌐 Residential Proxy Setup (High-Volume Scraping)

For high-concurrency scraping without IP blocks, mcp-stealth-browser natively integrates with dynamic residential proxies:

1. Obtain a residential proxy gateway (e.g. claim a 1GB Free Trial at Ropond Proxy Cloud).

2. Set the environment variable:

export ROTA_PROXY_URL="http://customer-xyz:pass@gw.ropond.com:8080"

3. mcp-stealth-browser will automatically create sticky sessions per agent conversation and rotate automatically if a 403 or 429 block is encountered.

🧪 Testing Locally

You can test the search and fetch capabilities directly from CLI:

# Test multi-engine search
python -m mcp_stealth_browser.cli --test-search "DeepSeek R1 reasoning architecture"

# Test stealth fetch on a webpage
python -m mcp_stealth_browser.cli --test-fetch "https://news.ycombinator.com"

# Check proxy pool health
python -m mcp_stealth_browser.cli --status

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.