ScrapeUnblocker remote MCP server

A hosted (HTTP) Model Context Protocol server for ScrapeUnblocker, deployed as a Vercel serverless function. It lets claude.ai (web and mobile), Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and any other MCP client fetch any web page's HTML - or AI-parsed JSON, or Google results - through ScrapeUnblocker's anti-bot API, billed to your own account.

Prefer a local install with no hosting? Use the stdio package instead: scrapeunblocker-mcp.

Endpoint

https://mcp.scrapeunblocker.com/mcp

You need a ScrapeUnblocker account - create a free one. There are two ways to authenticate, and you only need one of them.

A. Sign in with OAuth (recommended) - nothing to copy or paste. The server is an OAuth 2.1 Resource Server backed by Auth0, so the client runs a standard PKCE flow, and the server resolves your ScrapeUnblocker key server-side from the account you signed in with (the token is never passed through to the backend, per RFC 8707).

If your client asks for an OAuth client ID, use the public one - it is a PKCE client, so it carries no secret and is safe to share:

5BM5Wk2dE4ABkDITmuKfemPLnn3QQ8jd

Leave the client secret field empty.

B. Bring your own API key - handy for scripts and clients without an OAuth flow. Supply the key any of three ways:

1. ?key=YOUR_KEY (or ?token=YOUR_KEY) in the URL.

2. Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY header (a non-JWT value).

3. x-scrapeunblocker-key: YOUR_KEY header.

Listing the tools (initialize, tools/list) needs no credentials at all, so MCP directories and inspectors can introspect the server; actually running a tool does.

OAuth configuration (maintainers)

Discovery endpoints served (via vercel.json rewrites): /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource and /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp.

Related MCP server: @unblockingapi/mcp

Add it to claude.ai

1. Customize → Connectors → + → Add custom connector.

2. URL: https://mcp.scrapeunblocker.com/mcp

3. Under Advanced settings, set OAuth Client ID to 5BM5Wk2dE4ABkDITmuKfemPLnn3QQ8jd and leave OAuth Client Secret empty.

4. Add, then sign in and Authorize. The tools appear across claude.ai web, mobile, and Claude Desktop.

Or skip OAuth entirely and paste a personalised URL instead: https://mcp.scrapeunblocker.com/mcp?key=YOUR_API_KEY

Add it to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http scrapeunblocker "https://mcp.scrapeunblocker.com/mcp?key=YOUR_API_KEY"

Add it to ChatGPT

Use ChatGPT on the web (chatgpt.com) - not the desktop app - on a paid plan (Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise) with developer mode. All four tools are read-only, so Plus is enough.

1. Settings → Plugins, turn on Developer mode.

2. In Plugins, click + to open New Plugin.

3. Keep Connection on Server URL, set Authentication to No Auth, tick the risk box, and paste the URL with your key: https://mcp.scrapeunblocker.com/mcp?key=YOUR_API_KEY

4. Create. The four tools are then available in any chat.

Full walkthrough with screenshots: docs.scrapeunblocker.com/sdks/chatgpt.

Tools

Interacting with a page (steps)

fetch_html accepts an optional steps array - an ordered list of browser actions run in a real browser after the page loads, before the HTML is captured. Supported actions: wait_for, wait_for_text, wait, click, type (human-like keystrokes), select, press_key, scroll. A typical flow is: call list_elements to discover selectors, then call fetch_html with steps to drive the page.

Steps are non-idempotent - the request runs once and is not retried. If a step fails (bad selector, element never appeared), the tool returns an HTTP 422 result naming the offending step (step_index, action, reason, selector) plus the page HTML at the point of failure, so you can correct the step.

Deploy (maintainers)

This is a standard Vercel project - no build step, the function lives in api/mcp.ts.

vercel            # preview
vercel --prod     # production

Then point the mcp.scrapeunblocker.com domain at the Vercel project. Scraping calls can be slow, so the function's maxDuration is set to 60s (raise it on a paid Vercel plan if you hit timeouts on heavy pages).

License

MIT