Connect webscraperapi to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other MCP clients in minutes.

MCP Quickstart

Connect webscraperapi as an MCP server so your AI agent can call scraping tools directly — no API integration code needed.

Create an account at webscraperapi.ai. On your first MCP tool call, OAuth will open in your browser to authorize access.

claude mcp add --transport http webscraperapi https://api.webscraperapi.ai/mcp

Add this to your Claude Desktop config file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webscraperapi": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.webscraperapi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add this to your Cursor MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webscraperapi": {
      "url": "https://api.webscraperapi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Ask your agent to use webscraperapi:

use webscraperapi to fetch https://news.ycombinator.com and summarize the page

You should see a tool call like webscraperapi - scrape (MCP) in the output.

Available tools

Tool	What it does
`scrape`	Fetch any URL as markdown, HTML, or structured data
`google_search`	Search Google and get structured results
`google_shopping_search`	Get product listings and prices from Google Shopping
`google_ads`	See paid ads for a search query
`detect_technologies`	Identify the tech stack on any website
`serp_domain_frequencies`	Find which domains dominate search results
`verify_email_address`	Check if an email address is deliverable

MCP is optional. You can also use webscraperapi through direct HTTP API calls with an API key.