What is WebScraping.AI MCP Server?
WebScraping.AI MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that integrates with the WebScraping.AI API to provide web data extraction capabilities to MCP-enabled LLMs. It allows AI agents to scrape web pages, answer questions about content, extract structured data, and retrieve HTML or text with JavaScript rendering and proxy support.
How to use WebScraping.AI MCP Server?
Install and run it via npx with your API key: env WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY=your_api_key npx -y webscraping-ai-mcp. Configure it in Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json) or Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json) by specifying the command and environment variables. All scraping tools accept parameters like url, timeout, js, proxy, country, device, and wait_for.
Key features of WebScraping.AI MCP Server
- Question answering about web page content
- Structured data extraction with custom fields
- Full HTML and plain text retrieval
- CSS selector–based content extraction
- Support for datacenter and residential proxies with country selection
- JavaScript rendering using headless Chrome/Chromium
Use cases of WebScraping.AI MCP Server
- Ask an LLM to summarize or find specific information on a webpage
- Extract product details (title, price, description) from e-commerce sites
- Retrieve the full HTML of a page for further analysis or archiving
- Monitor account usage (API requests remaining) via the account tool
- Scrape content from multiple page sections using multiple CSS selectors
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