Pagewatch MCP Server

by pagelens Your server? Claim it

answering

Pagewatch is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. 78 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 8 · avg 3 · +0% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 99%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

853 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

What the code does

We read the source, 2 d ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 995398eba69f

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Package points at a different repository toolshedlabs-hash/pagewatch-mcp

пакет pagewatch-mcp ссылается на toolshedlabs-hash/pagewatch-mcp-node

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add pagewatch --transport http https://pagelens.dev/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "pagewatch": {
      "type": "http",
      "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

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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://pagelens.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	819 ms	9 min ago

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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 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 853 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 in the form 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 853 ms on average, which is faster than 9% 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 78 times in the last week. Week over week that is +0%. 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?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at pagelens.dev, which runs on its operator's own terms.