ShadowCrawl MCP Server

by devshero Your server? Claim it

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ShadowCrawl is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. Last commit 7 Jun 2026.

Stealth scraping & search. Bypasses Cloudflare, DataDome & LinkedIn via Cyborg HITL approach.

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 98%

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

389 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 7 Jun 2026

What changed 41

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Sep the owner changed

17 Sep the owner changed

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9 Sep the owner changed

and 31 more, back to 9 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check ShadowCrawl 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

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add shadow-crawl --transport http https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.tools

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shadow-crawl": {
      "url": "https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.tools"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.shadow-crawl]
url = "https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.tools"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shadow-crawl": {
      "url": "https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.tools"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shadow-crawl": {
      "url": "https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.tools"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.tools	streamable-http	sign-in	331 ms	13 min ago

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ShadowCrawl — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for ShadowCrawl?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is ShadowCrawl working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 389 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect ShadowCrawl?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to ShadowCrawl?

No API key is involved. ShadowCrawl answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is ShadowCrawl?

It answers our handshake in 389 ms on average, which is faster than 39% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is ShadowCrawl open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Rust, 71 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.