🔍 Prysm MCP Server: Web scraping tools for AI assistants with multiple extraction modes and flexible output formats
🔍 Prysm MCP Server: Web scraping tools for AI assistants with multiple extraction modes and flexible output formats. The 🔍 prysm mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 6 defined tools rather than through you.
The Prysm MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server enables AI assistants like Claude and others to scrape web content with high accuracy and flexibility.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Installation — The Installation tool exposed by this serverUsage — The Usage tool exposed by this serverscrapeFocused — Fast web scraping optimized for speed (fewer scrolls, main content only)scrapeBalanced — Balanced web scraping approach with good coverage and reasonable speedscrapeDeep — The scrapeDeep tool exposed by this serverformatResult — Format scraped data into different structured formats (markdown, HTML, JSON)You will need 2 environment variables: PRYSM_OUTPUT_DIR, PRYSM_IMAGE_OUTPUT_DIR. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
The server ships on npm as You, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Among the search and retrieval options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. 🔍 Prysm's toolset — Installation, Usage, scrapeFocused and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by pinkpixel-dev; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against 🔍 Prysm's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Installation | The Installation tool exposed by this server. |
| Usage | The Usage tool exposed by this server. |
| scrapeFocused | Fast web scraping optimized for speed (fewer scrolls, main content only). |
| scrapeBalanced | Balanced web scraping approach with good coverage and reasonable speed. |
| scrapeDeep | The scrapeDeep tool exposed by this server. |
| formatResult | Format scraped data into different structured formats (markdown, HTML, JSON). |
{
"mcpServers": {
"prysm": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "You"],
"env": {
"PRYSM_OUTPUT_DIR": "your-value",
"PRYSM_IMAGE_OUTPUT_DIR": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PRYSM_OUTPUT_DIR | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
| PRYSM_IMAGE_OUTPUT_DIR | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
The simplest web tool that matters — fetch any URL and get model-ready markdown back.
Industrial-strength web extraction — render, scrape, crawl and search entire sites into clean markdown.
Puppeteer-powered browser control that drives pages from the accessibility tree instead of pixels.
Search built for AI, not humans — semantic web search that returns model-ready content, plus code context.
Answers, not links — delegate questions to Perplexity's search-grounded models and get cited responses back.
Put 6,000+ pre-built scrapers at your assistant's fingertips through one MCP endpoint.