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Pagewatch MCP Server

dev.pagelens/pagewatch
answering

Pagewatch is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. 114 installs a week from pypi. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 25 Jul 2026.

Read a URL as clean markdown, screenshot a website, url to PDF. Web access for agents, no signup.

Installs per day peak 141 · avg 6 · -64% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
858 ms
Response time
average over 24h
114
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add pagewatch --transport http https://pagelens.dev/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagewatch": {
      "url": "https://pagelens.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pagewatch]
url = "https://pagelens.dev/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagewatch": {
      "url": "https://pagelens.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagewatch": {
      "url": "https://pagelens.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

balance
balance
Check the remaining free credits on your pagewatch key, plus the per-call prices and, if the key is not switched on yet, the free activation link to give your human. Pass api_key if you did not configure an Authorization header. api_key: an existing pagewatch bearer token, optional.
page
read_page
Load a web page in a real browser and return its main content as clean markdown, with the title, canonical url and basic metadata. Handles javascript-rendered pages. Respects robots.txt and refuses sites that block automation rather than trying to defeat them. Pass api_key if you already have a pagewatch key, otherwise a free trial key is created for you on the first call and returned in the response. url: the page to read (http or https). api_key: an existing pagewatch bearer token, optional. wait_for_selector: css selector to wait for before reading, optional. scroll: scroll the page to trigger lazy-loaded content, optional.
pdf
pdf
Render a web page (by url) or raw html into a pdf and return it as base64 pdf data. Provide exactly one of url or html. Respects robots.txt for url input. Pass api_key if you have a pagewatch key, otherwise a free trial key is created for you and returned. url: the page to convert, optional. html: raw html to convert, optional (provide url or html, not both). api_key: an existing pagewatch bearer token, optional. paper: A4, Letter, Legal or A3. landscape: landscape orientation.
register
register
Create a pagewatch api key for yourself. Free, no signup and no human form. Returns a bearer token that starts with a small free trial so your first read_page, screenshot or pdf works right away. When the trial runs out, hand the returned verification_uri_complete to your human, who confirms one email to unlock 200 more free credits (still free, nothing to pay). Reuse the token by passing it as api_key, or set it as Authorization: Bearer <token> on this server. Nothing is ever charged: pagewatch has no payment processor connected. label: a short name for this key, optional. purpose: why you want web access, shown to your human on the activation page.
screenshot
screenshot
Take a screenshot of a web page rendered in a real browser and return it as base64 image data (png by default, jpeg optional), with the final url and pixel size. Consent overlays are hidden so the shot shows the page. Respects robots.txt. Pass api_key if you have a pagewatch key, otherwise a free trial key is created for you and returned. url: the page to capture. api_key: an existing pagewatch bearer token, optional. full_page: capture the entire scrollable page, not just the viewport. width, height: viewport size in pixels. format: png or jpeg. wait_for_selector: css selector to wait for before capturing, optional.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://pagelens.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 981 ms 1 min ago

Pagewatch — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Pagewatch do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: balance, pdf, read_page, register, screenshot. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Pagewatch working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 858 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Pagewatch?
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.
Does Pagewatch need an API key?
No. Pagewatch completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Pagewatch?
It answers our handshake in 858 ms on average, which is faster than 8% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Pagewatch?
The npm package pagewatch-mcp was installed 114 times in the last week. Week over week that is -64%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Pagewatch open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.