CurlShot MCP Server

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CurlShot is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 15 Oct 2026.

Screenshots of any public web page as PNG, JPEG, WebP, PDF or a scrolling video.

Uptime history 72 hours of history

72 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

254 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 15 Oct 2026

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 15 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

15 Oct a tool description was rewritten take_screenshot

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check CurlShot 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 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

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

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

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

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.curlshot]
url = "https://curlshot.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

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

Available tools 2

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

devices

list_devices

List the device presets accepted by the viewport_device argument of take_screenshot. Needs no access key.

take

take_screenshot

Render a public web page and return it as an image (or a PDF, or a video of the page scrolling). Uses one screenshot of the account quota; cache hits and failed renders are free. Prefer jpeg or webp to keep the image small. A result over 6 MB comes back as a download link (valid for about a day) instead of inline data.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://curlshot.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	219 ms	12 min ago

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CurlShot — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can CurlShot do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: list_devices, take_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 CurlShot 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 254 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect CurlShot?

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 CurlShot need an API key?

No. CurlShot completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is CurlShot?

It answers our handshake in 254 ms on average, which is faster than 51% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is CurlShot open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence 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.