MCP server for web scraping — extract clean markdown, links, metadata from any URL
概览
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. Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, and any MCP client. No accounts or API keys needed. When you're working with an AI assistant and need to reference a docs page, a blog post, or an API reference, you usually end up copy-pasting content manually. Tools like Firecrawl solve this but require a paid API key. This server does the same thing for free. It fetches a URL, runs it through Mozilla Readability (the same engine behind Firefox Reader View), and returns clean markdown. It works well for server-rendered content like documentation sites, blog posts, and articles. It won't handle JavaScript-heavy SPAs, but for the most common use case of "read this docs page and summarize it," it does the job. Add to your MCP settings (e.g. .vscode/mcp.
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mcp-server-scraper
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.
npx mcp-server-scraper
Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, and any MCP client. No accounts or API keys needed.
Demo built with remotion-readme-kit
Why
When you’re working with an AI assistant and need to reference a docs page, a blog post, or an API reference, you usually end up copy-pasting content manually. Tools like Firecrawl solve this but require a paid API key. This server does the same thing for free. It fetches a URL, runs it through Mozilla Readability (the same engine behind Firefox Reader View), and returns clean markdown. It works well for server-rendered content like documentation sites, blog posts, and articles. It won’t handle JavaScript-heavy SPAs, but for the most common use case of “read this docs page and summarize it,” it does the job.
Tools
| 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 |
安装
npx -y mcp-server-scraper配置
{
"mcpServers": {
"scraper": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-server-scraper"]
}
}
}