Website Scraper MCP Server

Implementation Reference

• src/index.ts:74-89 (handler)

  The inline handler function for the "scrape-to-markdown" tool that invokes scrapeToMarkdown and returns the markdown content or an error response.

  async ({ url }) => {
    try {
      const markdown = await scrapeToMarkdown(url);
      
      // Return the markdown as the tool result
      return {
        content: [{ type: "text", text: markdown }]
      };
    } catch (error: any) {
      // Handle errors gracefully
      return {
        content: [{ type: "text", text: `Error: ${error.message}` }],
        isError: true
      };
    }
  }

• src/index.ts:73-73 (schema)

  Zod schema defining the input parameter: a required valid URL string.

  { url: z.string().url() },

• src/index.ts:71-90 (registration)

  Registration of the "scrape-to-markdown" tool on the MCP server using server.tool() with name, schema, and handler.

  server.tool(
    "scrape-to-markdown",
    { url: z.string().url() },
    async ({ url }) => {
      try {
        const markdown = await scrapeToMarkdown(url);
        
        // Return the markdown as the tool result
        return {
          content: [{ type: "text", text: markdown }]
        };
      } catch (error: any) {
        // Handle errors gracefully
        return {
          content: [{ type: "text", text: `Error: ${error.message}` }],
          isError: true
        };
      }
    }
  );

• src/index.ts:15-59 (helper)

  Main helper function that performs the web scraping: fetches HTML, extracts article with Readability/JSDOM, converts to markdown, and adds code block language hints.

  export async function scrapeToMarkdown(url: string): Promise<string> {
    try {
      // Fetch the HTML content from the provided URL with proper headers
      const response = await fetch(url, {
        headers: {
          'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
          'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8',
          'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
        }
      });
      
      if (!response.ok) {
        throw new Error(`Failed to fetch URL: ${response.status}`);
      }
      
      // Get content type to check encoding
      const contentType = response.headers.get('content-type') || '';
      const htmlContent = await response.text();
  
      // Parse the HTML using JSDOM with the URL to resolve relative links
      const dom = new JSDOM(htmlContent, { 
        url,
        pretendToBeVisual: true, // This helps with some interactive content
      });
      
      // Extract the main content using Readability
      const reader = new Readability(dom.window.document);
      const article = reader.parse();
      
      if (!article || !article.content) {
        throw new Error("Failed to parse article content");
      }
      
      // Convert the cleaned article HTML to Markdown using htmlToMarkdown
      let markdown = htmlToMarkdown(article.content);
      
      // Simple post-processing to improve code blocks with language hints
      markdown = markdown.replace(/```\n(class|function|import|const|let|var|if|for|while)/g, '```javascript\n$1');
      markdown = markdown.replace(/```\n(def|class|import|from|with|if|for|while)(\s+)/g, '```python\n$1$2');
      
      return markdown;
    } catch (error: any) {
      throw new Error(`Scraping error: ${error.message}`);
    }
  }

• src/data_processing.ts:9-19 (helper)

  Supporting utility to convert cleaned HTML to Markdown using TurndownService, removing script tags first.

  export function htmlToMarkdown(html: string): string {
    // Remove script tags and their content before conversion
    const cleanHtml = html.replace(/<script\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/script>)<[^<]*)*<\/script>/gi, '');
    
    const turndownService = new TurndownService({
      codeBlockStyle: 'fenced',
      emDelimiter: '_'
    });
  
    return turndownService.turndown(cleanHtml);
  }