Scrapingdog runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 36 installs a week from npm. Last commit 26 Oct 2026.
Scrapingdog web-scraping & SERP APIs: web scrape, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more.
What the code does
We read the source, 22 h ago · rules 995398eba69f
Found in continuous integration, deployment or infrastructure files, or in a neighbouring package of the same monorepo. None of this is installed when you add the server: it describes how the project is built and released. We list it because a leaked key in a build pipeline is still a real problem, but it is not something this server does on your machine.
sudo tee /etc/cron.weekly/cloudflare-ufw >/dev/null <<EOF
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Today is the operative word: we check Scrapingdog every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add scrapingdog-mcp -e 'SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY=<SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY>' -- npx -y scrapingdog-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"scrapingdog-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"scrapingdog-mcp"
],
"env": {
"SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY": "<SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.scrapingdog-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "scrapingdog-mcp"]
env = { SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY = "<SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"scrapingdog-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"scrapingdog-mcp"
],
"env": {
"SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY": "<SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"scrapingdog-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"scrapingdog-mcp"
],
"env": {
"SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY": "<SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY> (Your Scrapingdog API key (from https://www.scrapingdog.com/ dashboard)).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
SCRAPINGDOG_API_BASE (Override the Scrapingdog API base URL), SCRAPINGDOG_TIMEOUT_MS (Per-request timeout in milliseconds).
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Scrapingdog — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.