deepcrawl-mcp

Clone, scrape and crawl any website. Free Firecrawl alternative. No API keys, no rate limits, no subscription.

Quick Start

Cursor (one-click): Click the "Install in Cursor" button above.

Manual MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deepcrawl-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "deepcrawl-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Automatic updates

Every install below keeps itself up to date, without restarting Claude or Cursor. The MCP client talks to a small supervisor (bin/supervise.cjs) that stays connected while the server runs behind it. At start-up and every 6 hours it asks npm for the latest deepcrawl-mcp, installs it in the background in ~/.soflution/mcp/deepcrawl-mcp/, and switches over as soon as no request is in flight (the client is told the tool list may have changed). A version that fails to start is rolled back at once and never picked again on that machine. npm checks the integrity of every download, and releases are published from GitHub Actions with provenance.

The only network call is that version check to registry.npmjs.org; nothing about your machine or your use is sent. Turn it off with NO_UPDATE_NOTIFIER=1 (or SOFLUTION_AUTO_UPDATE=0). Started directly with node dist/..., deepcrawl-mcp does not update itself and only mentions a newer version in its first tool result.

CLI:

npx deepcrawl-mcp@latest

Related MCP server: AIMLPM/markcrawl

Tools

deepcrawl_scrape

Scrape a single page and return clean markdown. Extracts title, description, links, images, and metadata. Strips navigation, footer, ads, and tracking.

"Scrape https://example.com and give me the main content"

deepcrawl_clone

Clone a full page with all assets: HTML, CSS, JS, images, fonts, favicons. Downloads everything into a local folder, rewrites URLs to relative paths. Open index.html in a browser and it works.

"Clone https://competitor.com into a local folder"

deepcrawl_crawl

Crawl an entire site following internal links. Returns every page as clean markdown. Great for content analysis, SEO audit, or feeding a RAG pipeline.

"Crawl https://docs.example.com and return all pages as markdown"

deepcrawl_map

Discover all URLs from a site via sitemap.xml parsing and homepage link crawling. Run this before a crawl to see the site's scope.

"Map all pages on https://example.com"

vs Firecrawl

deepcrawl handles static sites out of the box. For JS-heavy SPAs (React, Next.js, SvelteKit), install Playwright for full rendering:

npm install -g playwright
npx playwright install chromium

Once installed, deepcrawl auto-detects Playwright and enables JS rendering. Use jsRender: true on any tool to activate it. All tools also include UA rotation, realistic browser headers, and random delays to avoid basic bot detection.

Also by Soflution

• brandcheck - Check brand name availability across 27 platforms

• depsonar - Dependency audit, security scan, license check

License

MIT