Trawlia MCP Server

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Trawlia runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 25 installs a week from npm. Last commit 20 Sep 2026.

Web search and page extraction for agents, returned as readable text rather than raw JSON.

Installs per day peak 152 · avg 11 · +48% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · trawlia-mcp

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0 open issues

20 Sep 2026

Last commit

2 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

JavaScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Trawlia 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

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 Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add trawlia-mcp -- npx -y trawlia-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trawlia-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "trawlia-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.trawlia-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "trawlia-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trawlia-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "trawlia-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trawlia-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "trawlia-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: TRAWLIA_API_KEY (A Trawlia API key. Free at https://trawlia.co/signup, 100 credits a month, no card.), TRAWLIA_BASE_URL (Override the API origin. Defaults to https://api.trawlia.co; only needed to point at a local server.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Trawlia — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Trawlia?

Trawlia runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package trawlia-mcp was installed 25 times last week.

How do I connect Trawlia?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls trawlia-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Trawlia?

The npm package trawlia-mcp was installed 25 times in the last week. Week over week that is +48%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Trawlia open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript 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.