ai-first-scraper-mcp

Name: AI-First Scraper
Author: yubinkim444

Plug Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Cline straight into an ad-free web scraper + search engine. Three tools, one line of config.

What it does

Adds three tools to any MCP-compatible agent:

Tool	What it does
`fetch_page`	Fetch one URL → return clean Markdown (HTML or PDF).
`fetch_pages_batch`	Fetch up to 25 URLs in parallel → return Markdown for each.
`search_web`	Run a web search and return the top-k result pages already converted to Markdown.

No more "the model called curl and then tried to parse 80kB of ad HTML." Your agent receives clean Markdown ready to reason about.

Backed by the ai-first-scraper and ai-first-search APIs.

Install

Fastest — `uvx` (no install, runs from PyPI on demand)

// claude_desktop_config.json  /  cline_mcp_settings.json  /  ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-first-scraper": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["ai-first-scraper-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart your client (Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline). The three tools above will appear automatically.

Alternative — pip install

pip install ai-first-scraper-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-first-scraper": {
      "command": "ai-first-scraper-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Where the config file lives

Client	Config path
Claude Desktop (macOS)	`~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
Claude Desktop (Windows)	`%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json`
Cursor	`~/.cursor/mcp.json`
Cline (VS Code)	`~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/saoudrizwan.claude-dev/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json`

Point at your own backend (optional)

By default this server calls the public ai-first-scraper.onrender.com and ai-first-search.onrender.com instances. If you want to self-host, set env vars in your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-first-scraper": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["ai-first-scraper-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SCRAPER_URL": "https://your-scraper.example.com",
        "SEARCH_URL":  "https://your-search.example.com",
        "AFS_TIMEOUT": "60"
      }
    }
  }
}

Verify it works

Open your MCP client and ask the agent:

"Use the search_web tool to find the top 3 recent articles about MCP and summarize them in 5 bullets each."

You should see the agent call search_web, get back Markdown for each result, and produce the summary without ever touching raw HTML.

Companion projects

ai-first-scraper — the per-URL Markdown cleaner this MCP server fans out to.
ai-first-search — search → scrape → markdown pipeline.
mcp-rec — record & replay any MCP server's traffic for tests and bug reports.
llm-cache-proxy — local cache for OpenAI/Anthropic API calls.
promptlocker — lockfile for prompts.
context-diff — see what blew up your Claude Code context window.
agentwatch — overlay for browser AI agents.

Develop locally

git clone https://github.com/yubinkim444/ai-first-scraper-mcp.git
cd ai-first-scraper-mcp

uv sync                    # or: pip install -e .
ai-first-scraper-mcp       # speaks MCP over stdio

To test against a local client, point its MCP config at the same command.

About the author

Built by yubinkim444, who also makes Kay's Records — an app for iOS and Android.

If this project saved you time, giving the app a try is the nicest way to say thanks.

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