The web scraping MCP server for your AI agent

Your agent’s built-in fetch dies on a 403. Paste one URL into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP client, and your agent gets web tools it calls on its own — with 40M+ proxies, CAPTCHA handling, JS rendering, geotargeting, and structured JSON from major sites, at up to a 99% success rate.

No credit card required. 5,000 free API credits.

Up to 99.99% success rate

40M+ proxies

1 config paste

What your agent can do with the ScraperAPI MCP server

Once your MCP client is connected, these are the kinds of tasks coding agents and LLM apps handle on their own.

Live web access for coding agents

Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Cline read live pages mid-task through the scrape tool — docs, changelogs, competitor sites — instead of dying on a 403 or summarizing a block page.

Google Search from inside your agent

Your agent runs Google searches and gets organic results back as structured fields, so it can scrape Google Search from Claude Code or Cursor without ever parsing a results page.

Commerce price and product checks

Ask about Amazon, Walmart, or eBay and your agent calls a structured tool that returns price, title, and availability as JSON — no hallucinated prices from context heavy HTML.

Real-estate and research tools

Pull Redfin listings as structured data, or fetch any page as raw HTML for deeper analysis — an MCP tool for real-estate listings, market research, and lead lists.

Everything your MCP client needs for web scraping

An agent needs to reach any URL, get data it can reason over, and connect without setup overhead. The ScraperAPI MCP server delivers all three over the Model Context Protocol.

The anti-bot work your agent doesn't build

Get the data, not the page

Connected in one copy-paste

See It in Action

From config paste to a web-scraping agent in under two minutes.

mcp.json

    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "scraperapi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.scraperapi.com/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      ]
    }
  }
}
  

Without the ScraperAPI MCP server

With the ScraperAPI MCP server

Why 10,000+ developers choose ScraperAPI for MCP web scraping

Your agent stops failing mid-task

When built-in fetch returns a 403 or a block page, the task dies. The ScraperAPI MCP server opens protected, JS-heavy pages so your agent finishes what it started.

Up to 99.99% success rate, even on protected sites

High success rates keep your agent working on sites like Amazon and Google. When a site updates its anti-bot protection, ScraperAPI adapts automatically.

Structured data your agent can reason over

Tools return structured JSON fields — price, title, result — so your agent gets the data, not the page, and spends fewer tokens reasoning over it.

One config paste, nothing to host

Unlike local MCP servers, there’s nothing to install or run. Paste the remote URL into your client config and the server auto-starts — no zones to configure, no infrastructure to keep alive.

Pay only for data that comes back clean

No charges for failed requests, and transparent credit pricing instead of enterprise seats. IP rotation, JS rendering, and CAPTCHA handling run behind the scenes. You only pay for successful results.

Works with any MCP client and the rest of your stack

Any MCP client can connect — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, or your own LLM app — and the same web access also runs under LangChain, LlamaIndex, and CLI.

Native integrations for your automation stack

ScraperAPI plugs into the rest of your stack, too. The same reliable web access runs under the CLI, LangChain, and LlamaIndex — one account and one set of credits.

CLI

For the terminal

Reach any page from your terminal in one command: raw HTML, text, markdown, or parsed JSON. See the exact credit cost before you run it. Feed the clean output straight to an LLM, RAG pipeline, or training set.

LangChain

For Python developers

Add web access to your LangChain agents in two lines. They reach any public URL and get clean text, markdown, or structured JSON from Amazon, Google, eBay, Walmart, and Redfin. Your agent gets the data, not page.

LlamaIndex

For RAG and indexing

Add web access to your LlamaIndex agents in two lines. Pull any URL as clean text or markdown, plus structured JSON from Amazon, Google, eBay, Walmart, and Redfin, ready to chunk, embed, and load into your vector store.

Frequently asked questions about MCP web scraping

What's the best MCP server for web scraping?

A web scraper MCP is only as good as its unblocking. ScraperAPI routes every request through 40M+ proxies with CAPTCHA handling and JS rendering, reaches up to a 99% success rate on protected sites, and returns structured JSON from Google, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Redfin — plus raw HTML from any URL through the scrape tool.

How do I add the ScraperAPI MCP server to Claude Code or Cursor?

Add it to your Claude Code MCP config (or your Cursor MCP settings) by pasting one snippet pointing at https://mcp.scraperapi.com/mcp, with your API key sent as an Authorization header. The remote server auto-starts with your client — nothing to install. The same config works in Windsurf and Cline. See the MCP setup guide for your client. (the link is live in the answer)

Why does my coding agent's fetch fail or return a block page?

Built-in fetch tools make plain HTTP requests, so anti-bot systems flag them and answer with a 403, a CAPTCHA, or a block page. Routed through the ScraperAPI MCP server, the same request goes out through rotating proxies with rendering and CAPTCHA handling — your agent gets the real page, or a clear error, never a silent empty result.

Can an AI agent scrape Amazon or Google through MCP?

Yes. The server exposes structured tools for Google Search, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Redfin. Your agent calls the tool and gets JSON fields — price, title, results — instead of raw HTML to parse, which also uses fewer LLM tokens.

What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?

MCP is an open protocol that lets LLM clients call external tools. An MCP client — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, or your own app — connects to MCP servers that expose tools. ScraperAPI’s server exposes web scraping tools your agent calls on its own whenever it needs live web data.

ScraperAPI MCP vs Firecrawl, Playwright, or Bright Data MCP — what's the difference?

Lightweight MCP scrapers, like a local Playwright MCP, fetch pages without real unblocking, so they fail on protected sites. Enterprise web-access MCPs bring zones, latency, and enterprise pricing. ScraperAPI sits in between: full unblocking with up to a 99% success rate, structured data tools, transparent credit pricing, and one config paste to connect.

Do I have to host or maintain the MCP server myself?

No. It’s a remote MCP server: paste the URL into your client config and it auto-starts with your client. Prefer to run it locally? An open-source version is available on GitHub — but there’s nothing you need to host for the remote server.

How much does it cost to give my agent web access?

Start with 5,000 free API credits — no credit card required. After that, transparent credit-based plans, and you only pay for successful requests.

Give your agent the web in one config paste

Connect the ScraperAPI MCP server to Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client and your agent gets reliable, structured web data in minutes.

No credit card required. 5,000 free API credits to start.