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Scrapingant MCP Server

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Scrapingant is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Cloud-based web access with real browsers and JS rendering by ScrapingAnt

Uptime history 91 days of history
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
156 ms
Response time
average over 24h
OAuth sign-in
Access
streamable-http

What changed 11

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 10 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

12 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_web_page_html, get_web_page_markdown, get_web_page_text
9 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_web_page_html, get_web_page_markdown, get_web_page_text
12 Sep 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_web_page_html, get_web_page_markdown, get_web_page_text
12 Sep a tool changed version
10 Aug a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Scrapingant every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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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 mcp --transport http https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

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.

Available tools 3

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

web
get_web_page_html
Fetch (scrape) a URL using ScrapingAnt and return the web page content as HTML. Args: url: The URL of the page to extract (scrape). browser: Whether to use browser rendering. Default: True. proxy_type: Type of proxy to use. Default: 'datacenter'. Use 'residential' if you encounter anti-bot detection, which improves anti-bot avoidance. proxy_country: Optional ISO-3166 country code. Default: random worldwide proxy. Use when facing geo-restrictions. Available country codes: ae, br, bz, ca, ch, cn, cz, de, es, fr, gb, hk, id, il, in, it, jp, kr, mx, my, nh, nl, ph, pk, pl, ro, ru, sa, sc, se, sg, th, tr, tw, uk, us, vn.
get_web_page_markdown
Fetch (scrape) a URL using ScrapingAnt and return the web page content as Markdown. Args: url: The URL of the page to extract (scrape). browser: Whether to use browser rendering. Default: True. proxy_type: Type of proxy to use. Default: 'datacenter'. Use 'residential' if you encounter anti-bot detection, which improves anti-bot avoidance. proxy_country: Optional ISO-3166 country code. Default: random worldwide proxy. Use when facing geo-restrictions. Available country codes: ae, br, bz, ca, ch, cn, cz, de, es, fr, gb, hk, id, il, in, it, jp, kr, mx, my, nh, nl, ph, pk, pl, ro, ru, sa, sc, se, sg, th, tr, tw, uk, us, vn.
get_web_page_text
Fetch (scrape) a URL using ScrapingAnt and return the web page content as plain text. Args: url: The URL of the page to extract (scrape). browser: Whether to use browser rendering. Default: True. proxy_type: Type of proxy to use. Default: 'datacenter'. Use 'residential' if you encounter anti-bot detection, which improves anti-bot avoidance. proxy_country: Optional ISO-3166 country code. Default: random worldwide proxy. Use when facing geo-restrictions. Available country codes: ae, br, bz, ca, ch, cn, cz, de, es, fr, gb, hk, id, il, in, it, jp, kr, mx, my, nh, nl, ph, pk, pl, ro, ru, sa, sc, se, sg, th, tr, tw, uk, us, vn.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/ streamable-http sign-in 148 ms 1 min ago

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Scrapingant — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Scrapingant do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_web_page_html, get_web_page_markdown, get_web_page_text. 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 Scrapingant 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 156 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Scrapingant?
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. 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 Scrapingant?
No API key is involved. Scrapingant 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 Scrapingant?
It answers our handshake in 156 ms on average, which is faster than 82% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.