WebScraping.AI MCP Server

Name: WebScraping.AI MCP Server
Author: io.github.webscraping-ai

io.github.webscraping-ai/webscraping-ai

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What is the WebScraping.AI MCP server?

Web scraping tools with Chromium JS rendering, rotating proxies, and AI question answering.

How to install WebScraping.AI

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY
required
secret
WebScraping.AI API key (get one at https://webscraping.ai)
WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE
Default proxy type for requests
WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING
Enable JavaScript rendering by default
WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT
Maximum concurrent API requests

Claude Desktop

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webscraping-ai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "webscraping-ai-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webscraping-ai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "webscraping-ai-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webscraping-ai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "webscraping-ai-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "webscraping-ai": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "webscraping-ai-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING>",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT": "<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add webscraping-ai --env WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY=<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY> --env WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE=<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE> --env WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING=<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING> --env WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT=<YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT> -- npx -y webscraping-ai-mcp