Arachne MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 164 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 19 Oct 2026.
Arachne MCP — scraping, browser, vision, OCR, RAG, Social Research, GitHub + VRT (56 tools).
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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 arachne-mcp -e 'ARACHNE_API_KEY=<ARACHNE_API_KEY>' -- uvx arachne-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"arachne-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"arachne-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ARACHNE_API_KEY": "<ARACHNE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.arachne-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["arachne-mcp"]
env = { ARACHNE_API_KEY = "<ARACHNE_API_KEY>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"arachne-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"arachne-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ARACHNE_API_KEY": "<ARACHNE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"arachne-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"arachne-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ARACHNE_API_KEY": "<ARACHNE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<ARACHNE_API_KEY> (Sua chave de API do Arachne (crie em https://arachne.seu.pet/dev)).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
ARACHNE_BASE_URL (URL base da API do Arachne (opcional, default: https://arachne.seu.pet)).
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