Anybrowse MCP Server

Autonomous web browsing agent — converts any URL to clean, LLM-ready Markdown via x402 micropayments

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What is the Anybrowse MCP server?

Connect Anybrowse to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. Autonomous web browsing agent — converts any URL to clean, LLM-ready Markdown via x402 micropayments. The anybrowse mcp server is what makes that connection.

What the server does

Real Chrome browsers with full JavaScript rendering. 84% success rate including JavaScript-heavy sites, Cloudflare-protected pages, and government sites.

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

  • scrape — Convert any URL to clean, LLM-optimized Markdown. Handles SPAs, dynamic content, and PDFs
  • crawl — Search Google for a query and scrape the top results to Markdown
  • search — Google search results as structured JSON (titles, URLs, snippets)
  • Endpoint — Price
  • Tools — The Tools tool exposed by this server
  • Example — Response: json { "url": "https://example.com", "title": "Example Domain", "markdown": "# Example Domain\n\nThis domain is for use in illustrative

Installation

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.

Where it fits

Plenty of AI and media services servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Anybrowse's toolset — scrape, crawl, search and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by kc23go; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Worth knowing first

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
scrapeConvert any URL to clean, LLM-optimized Markdown. Handles SPAs, dynamic content, and PDFs.
crawlSearch Google for a query and scrape the top results to Markdown.
searchGoogle search results as structured JSON (titles, URLs, snippets).
EndpointPrice
ToolsThe Tools tool exposed by this server.
ExampleResponse: json { "url": "https://example.com", "title": "Example Domain", "markdown": "# Example Domain\n\nThis domain is for use in illustrative examples...", "status": "ok" }

How to install the Anybrowse MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anybrowse": {
      "url": "https://anybrowse.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Anybrowse to scrape.
  • Use Anybrowse to crawl.
  • Use Anybrowse to search.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Anybrowse to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 6 tools (scrape, crawl, search, and more) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Anybrowse directly.