ScrapingBee MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides web scraping capabilities using the ScrapingBee API. This server allows you to test and use ScrapingBee's extract rules feature to extract structured data from web pages.

Features

• Test web scraping extract rules using CSS/XPath selectors

• Support for JavaScript rendering

• Premium and stealth proxy options

• Custom wait conditions and browser events

• Session management for consistent IP addresses

• Full ScrapingBee API parameter support

Related MCP server: MCP Web Tools Server

Installation

1. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/scraping-bee-mcp.git
cd scraping-bee-mcp

2. Install dependencies:

npm install

3. Create a .env file with your ScrapingBee API key:

SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Usage

With supermachine.ai

Simply provide the GitHub repository URL to supermachine.ai and it will automatically configure the MCP server.

With Claude Desktop

Add the following to your Claude Desktop MCP settings configuration file:

MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scraping-bee": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/scraping-bee-mcp/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

With ChatGPT (via supermachine.ai)

1. Go to supermachine.ai

2. Add this GitHub repository URL

3. The MCP server will be automatically configured

Available Tools

test_extract_rules

Test web scraping extract rules using the ScrapingBee API.

Parameters:

• url (required): The target page URL to scrape

• extract_rules (required): JSON-encoded string describing what to extract (CSS/XPath selectors, lists, attributes, tables, etc.)

• js_scenario (optional): JSON-encoded string of scripted actions (click/type/scroll/infinite-scroll/etc.) to run before extraction

• render_js (optional): Enable a headless browser to execute JavaScript before extraction

• wait (optional): Fixed delay in milliseconds before returning the response (0-35000)

• wait_for (optional): CSS/XPath selector to wait for before returning

• wait_browser (optional): Browser event to wait for (domcontentloaded, load, networkidle0, networkidle2)

• premium_proxy (optional): Use residential proxy for scraper-resistant sites

• stealth_proxy (optional): Use stealth proxy for the hardest-to-scrape sites (most expensive option)

• country_code (optional): Proxy geolocation (e.g., us, de, br)

• session_id (optional): Keep the same IP across multiple requests (sticky sessions)

• custom_google (optional): Enable Google-specific handling (always true for Google domains)

Example:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "extract_rules": "{\"title\": \"h1\", \"price\": \".price\"}",
  "render_js": true
}

Extract Rules Format

Extract rules are defined as a JSON object where keys are the names of the data you want to extract and values are the selectors or extraction configurations.

Simple Extraction

{
  "title": "h1",
  "price": ".product-price",
  "description": "#description"
}

Advanced Extraction

{
  "product_name": {
    "selector": "h1.product-title",
    "type": "text"
  },
  "all_images": {
    "selector": "img.product-image",
    "type": "list",
    "output": "@src"
  },
  "table_data": {
    "selector": "table.specs",
    "type": "table"
  }
}

Development

Run the server locally (stdio mode):

npm start

Run the HTTP/SSE server locally:

npm run start:http

Remote Hosting

The MCP server can be hosted remotely using the HTTP/SSE transport. The hosted version requires users to provide their own ScrapingBee API key with each request.

Railway (Recommended)

1. Install Railway CLI: npm install -g @railway/cli

2. Login: railway login

3. Create project: railway init

4. Deploy: railway up

5. Your MCP server will be available at the Railway-provided URL

Render

1. Connect your GitHub repository to Render

2. Create a new Web Service

3. Select the repository

4. Render will automatically detect the render.yaml configuration

5. Deploy

Fly.io

1. Install Fly CLI: curl -L https://fly.io/install.sh | sh

2. Login: fly auth login

3. Launch: fly launch

4. Deploy: fly deploy

Docker

Build and run locally:

docker build -t scraping-bee-mcp .
docker run -p 3000:3000 scraping-bee-mcp

Connecting to Hosted Server

Once deployed, connect to your MCP server using the SSE endpoint:

• SSE Endpoint: https://your-server-url/sse

• Message Endpoint: https://your-server-url/message

• Health Check: https://your-server-url/health

Note: The hosted version requires the api_key parameter in each tool call, allowing users to use their own ScrapingBee API keys.

Requirements

• Node.js 18 or higher

• ScrapingBee API key (get one at scrapingbee.com)

License

MIT

Support

For issues or questions:

• ScrapingBee API documentation: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/

• MCP documentation: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/