Scrapingant MCP Server

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Scrapingant is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

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

Uptime history 47 days of history

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

146 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 5

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

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.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

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, 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, 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, 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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/	streamable-http	answering	139 ms	4 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 146 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 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 Scrapingant need an API key?

No. Scrapingant completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Scrapingant?

It answers our handshake in 146 ms on average, which is faster than 77% 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.