MCP server for web content scanning and analysis
Webscan MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Webscan directly instead of describing what you should do. MCP server for web content scanning and analysis.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for web content scanning and analysis. This server provides tools for fetching, analyzing, and extracting information from web pages.
The server ships on npm as @smithery/cli, 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.
Once Webscan is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Parameters — - url (required): URL of the page to fetchPrerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverBuilding — The Building tool exposed by this serverYou will need 2 environment variables: LOG_LEVEL, OPENAI_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
This 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. Webscan's toolset — Parameters, Prerequisites, Building — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by bsmi021; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Webscan's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Parameters | - url (required): URL of the page to fetch. |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Building | The Building tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"webscan": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["path/to/mcp-server-webscan/build/index.js"], // Corrected path
"env": {
"NODE_ENV": "development",
"LOG_LEVEL": "info" // Example: Set log level via env var
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| LOG_LEVEL | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| OPENAI_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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.
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Put 6,000+ pre-built scrapers at your assistant's fingertips through one MCP endpoint.