# crawl4ai-mcp-server

> A Model Context Protocol server for web crawling using Crawl4ai

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/crawl4ai-mcp-server/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/yourusername/crawl4ai-mcp-server
- repository: https://github.com/yourusername/crawl4ai-mcp-server/issues
- version: 0.1.5
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:crawl4ai-mcp-server

### Description (declared)

# Crawl4AI MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server for web crawling using the Crawl4ai library.

## 📋 Overview

Crawl4AI MCP Server provides a set of tools and prompts for web crawling through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It allows AI assistants to autonomously crawl websites, extract content, and save information as Markdown files.

## ✨ Features

- 🕸️ **Single Page Crawling**: Extract content from a single webpage in Markdown format
- 🌐 **Deep Website Crawling**: Crawl multiple pages of a website with configurable depth and limits
- 🔍 **Structured Data Extraction**: Use CSS selectors to extract specific structured data from webpages
- 💾 **Markdown Export**: Save crawled content directly as Markdown files

## 🚀 Installation

```bash
pip install crawl4ai-mcp-server
```

## 🛠️ Usage

### Command Line

Run the server directly from the command line:

```bash
crawl4ai-mcp
```

### Python API

```python
import asyncio
from crawl4ai_mcp import serve

# Run the server
asyncio.run(serve())
```

## 📝 Available Tools

### crawl_webpage

Crawls a single webpage and returns its content as markdown.

**Parameters**:

- `url` (string, required): URL to crawl
- `include_images` (boolean, optional): Whether to include images in the result (default: true)
- `bypass_cache` (boolean, optional): Whether to bypass cache (default: false)

### crawl_website

Crawls a website starting from the given URL, with specified depth and page limit.

**Parameters**:

- `url` (string, required): Starting URL
- `max_depth` (integer, optional): Maximum crawl depth (default: 1)
- `max_pages` (integer, optional): Maximum number of pages to crawl (default: 5)
- `include_images` (boolean, optional): Whether to include images (default: true)

### extract_structured_data

Extracts structured data from a webpage using CSS selectors.

**Parameters**:

- `url` (string, required): URL to extract data from
- `schema` (object, optional): Schema defining what to extract
- `css_selector` (string, …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- documents.extraction (0.894, derived)
- dev.terminal (0.825, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/crawl4ai-mcp-server/ (first seen 2026-09-09T13:20:42.261Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/crawl4ai-mcp-server/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/crawl4ai-mcp-server · ARD identifier urn:air::server:crawl4ai-mcp-server