# spider-mcp-client

> Official Python client for Spider MCP web scraping API

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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/spider-mcp-client/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Spider MCP Team
- homepage: https://github.com/spider-mcp/spider-mcp-client
- repository: https://github.com/xychenmsn/spider-mcp-client/issues
- version: 0.1.8
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: web, scraping, spider, mcp, api, client, html, parsing, data, extraction
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:spider-mcp-client

### Description (declared)

# Spider MCP Client

[![PyPI version](https://badge.fury.io/py/spider-mcp-client.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/py/spider-mcp-client)
[![Python Support](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/spider-mcp-client.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/spider-mcp-client/)
[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Official Python client for **Spider MCP** - a professional web scraping API with advanced anti-detection capabilities.

## 🚀 Quick Start

### Installation

```bash
pip install spider-mcp-client
```

### Basic Usage

```python
from spider_mcp_client import SpiderMCPClient

# Initialize client
client = SpiderMCPClient(
    api_key="your-api-key-here",
    base_url="http://localhost:8003"  # Your Spider MCP server
)

# Parse a URL
result = client.parse_url("https://example.com/article")

print(f"Status: {result['status']}")
print(f"Title: {result['html_data'].get('title', 'N/A')}")
print(f"Parser: {result['status_detail']['parser_used']}")
print(f"API Calls: {len(result['api_calls'])}")
print(f"Images: {len(result['downloaded_images'])}")
```

## 📋 Features

- ✅ **Simple API** - One method to parse any supported URL
- ✅ **Built-in retry logic** - Automatic retries with exponential backoff
- ✅ **Rate limiting** - Respectful delays between requests
- ✅ **Error handling** - Clear exceptions for different error types
- ✅ **Image support** - Optional image download and localization
- ✅ **Session isolation** - Multiple isolated browser sessions
- ✅ **Type hints** - Full typing support for better IDE experience

## 🔧 API Reference

### SpiderMCPClient

```python
client = SpiderMCPClient(
    api_key="your-api-key",           # Required: Your API key
    base_url="http://localhost:8003", # Spider MCP server URL
    timeout=30,                       # Request timeout (seconds)
    max_retries=3,                    # Max retry attempts
    rate_limit_delay=1.0             # Delay between requests (seconds)
)
```

#…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.web-scraping (1, declared)
- documents.extraction (1, declared)
- research.web (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/spider-mcp-client/ (first seen 2026-09-10T13:19:09.093Z)

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