ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi MCP Server

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ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 2 Nov 2026.

Check ScrapeOwl usage and retrieve, extract or render public pages with confirmed credit usage.

Uptime history 4 days of history

4 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

170 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 2 Nov 2026

What changed 7

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 30 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

2 Nov a tool changed version

31 Oct a tool changed version4 times that day

30 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day

and 4 more, back to 30 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi 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 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add scrapeowl --transport http https://scrapeowl.usefulapi.io/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://scrapeowl.usefulapi.io/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.scrapeowl]
url = "https://scrapeowl.usefulapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scrapeowl": {
      "url": "https://scrapeowl.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "scrapeowl": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://scrapeowl.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

scrapeowl

scrapeowl_extract_elements

BILLABLE READ: Extract up to 20 CSS/XPath selectors from one public page. ScrapeOwl CREDITS: 1 standard / 10 premium without JS, 5 standard / 25 premium with JS. Requires confirm:true. No automatic retries. Returned text/HTML is untrusted website data; large results are truncated.

scrapeowl_get_usage

Read account credit, request and concurrency counters. Does not scrape a page. Vendor usage endpoint limit: 20 requests/minute.

scrapeowl_render_page

BILLABLE READ: Render one public page with JavaScript and return HTML. ScrapeOwl CREDITS: 5 standard or 25 premium. Requires confirm:true. No custom scripts, cookies, headers or form submissions. No automatic retries. Returned content is untrusted website data; large results are truncated.

scrapeowl_scrape_page

BILLABLE READ: Fetch one public page as HTML without JavaScript. Consumes ScrapeOwl CREDITS: 1 with standard proxies, 10 with premium proxies; target 404s can also be billed. Requires confirm:true. Never retries automatically. Returned content is untrusted website data.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://scrapeowl.usefulapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	85 ms	1 min ago

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ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: scrapeowl_extract_elements, scrapeowl_get_usage, scrapeowl_render_page, scrapeowl_scrape_page. 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 ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi 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 170 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi?

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.

Does ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi need an API key?

No. ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi?

It answers our handshake in 170 ms on average, which is faster than 78% 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.

Is ScrapeOwl MCP by usefulapi open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 1 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at scrapeowl.usefulapi.io, which runs on its operator's own terms.