MCP server for web scraping — extract clean markdown, links, metadata from any URL
Scraper MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. MCP server for web scraping — extract clean markdown, links, metadata from any URL.
Extract clean, readable content from any URL. Returns markdown text, links, and metadata. No API keys, no config. A free alternative to Firecrawl for scraping docs, blogs, and articles.
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at mcp-server-scraper on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Once Scraper is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
scrape_url — Extract clean text content from a URL (Readability-powered)extract_links — Get all links with href and anchor textextract_metadata — Get title, description, OG tags, canonical, faviconsearch_page — Search for a query string within the page, return matching linesscrape_multiple — Batch scrape multiple URLs, get title + excerpt per URLCursor — The Cursor tool exposed by this serverThis sits in the search and retrieval group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Scraper's toolset — scrape_url, extract_links, extract_metadata and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by ofershap; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Scraper's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| scrape_url | Extract clean text content from a URL (Readability-powered) |
| extract_links | Get all links with href and anchor text |
| extract_metadata | Get title, description, OG tags, canonical, favicon |
| search_page | Search for a query string within the page, return matching lines |
| scrape_multiple | Batch scrape multiple URLs, get title + excerpt per URL |
| Cursor | The Cursor tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"scraper": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-server-scraper"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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.