# scrapy-mcp

> Headless web-scraping MCP server built on Scrapy: fetch, extract (CSS/XPath), links, tables, sitemaps, robots, and async crawls.

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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/scrapy-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Eitan Hadar
- homepage: https://github.com/eitan3/Scrapy_MCP_Scraper
- repository: https://github.com/eitan3/Scrapy_MCP_Scraper
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: crawler, mcp, model-context-protocol, scraper, scrapy, web-scraping
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:scrapy-mcp

### Description (declared)

# scrapy-mcp

A headless web-scraping [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server built on
[Scrapy](https://scrapy.org). It exposes Scrapy's scraping primitives — polite fetching,
CSS/XPath extraction, link and table extraction, sitemap and robots.txt reading, and bounded
asynchronous crawls — as MCP tools an agent can call over stdio.

- **Headless, no rendering.** Pages are fetched and parsed as HTML; no browser, no JavaScript
  execution. This keeps the footprint tiny — it runs comfortably on weak machines.
- **Reactor-safe.** Every operation runs in a short-lived Scrapy subprocess, so Twisted's
  reactor never lives inside the asyncio MCP server (no `ReactorNotRestartable`), and memory
  is reclaimed after each call.
- **Polite by default.** Obeys `robots.txt`, throttles with AutoThrottle, and enforces hard
  page/depth caps so a crawl can't run away.

## Install / run

Run straight from PyPI with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) — no install step:

```bash
uvx scrapy-mcp
```

Or install it:

```bash
uv pip install scrapy-mcp
scrapy-mcp
```

The server speaks MCP over **stdio**. Point any MCP client at it. For Claude Desktop, add to
`claude_desktop_config.json`:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scrapy": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["scrapy-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

## Tools

| Tool | What it does |
|------|--------------|
| `fetch_page(url, format, max_bytes, obey_robots)` | Fetch one page as `markdown` (default), `text`, or `html`. |
| `extract(url, selectors, obey_robots)` | Pull structured fields with CSS/XPath selectors. |
| `extract_tables(url, max_tables, obey_robots)` | Extract every HTML `<table>` as `{headers, rows}`. |
| `extract_links(url, same_domain, pattern, limit, obey_robots)` | List de-duplicated links on a page. |
| `get_sitemap(url, limit, obey_robots)` | Read a sitemap (gzip + sitemap-index aware). |
| `check_robots(url, user_agent)` | Is a URL crawlable? Returns the crawl-delay and sitemaps. |
| `start_crawl(start_url, allow_pat…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.web-scraping (1, declared)
- infra.browser-automation (0.814, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/scrapy-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T12:21:01.985Z)

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