# webcrawl-mcp

> Lightweight MCP server for web scraping, search, and crawling — local-first with optional Firecrawl fallback

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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/webcrawl-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Andy Liszewski
- homepage: https://github.com/andyliszewski/webcrawl
- repository: https://github.com/andyliszewski/webcrawl
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: claude, crawling, mcp, model-context-protocol, search, trafilatura, web-scraping
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:webcrawl-mcp

### Description (declared)

# webcrawl-mcp

[![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/webcrawl-mcp.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/webcrawl-mcp/)
[![Python versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/webcrawl-mcp.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/webcrawl-mcp/)
[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](LICENSE)

A lightweight MCP server that gives Claude Code (or any MCP client) the ability to scrape, search, map, and crawl the web — using free, open-source libraries. Firecrawl is supported as an **optional** fallback for JS-heavy sites when you have a key.

## Why

Most scraping doesn't actually need a headless browser. `trafilatura` handles the ~80% case (articles, docs, blogs) locally, which is faster and keeps external API usage to a minimum. This server routes the easy stuff through local extraction and only falls back to Firecrawl when content quality is genuinely poor.

## Tools

| Tool | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `webcrawl_scrape` | Fetch a single URL → markdown |
| `webcrawl_search` | DuckDuckGo search (optionally scrape results) |
| `webcrawl_map` | Discover same-domain URLs from a starting page |
| `webcrawl_crawl` | BFS crawl multiple pages |

## Install

```bash
pip install webcrawl-mcp
```

Requires Python 3.12+.

Quick smoke test (should print `Webcrawl MCP server running` then exit cleanly with Ctrl-C):

```bash
webcrawl-mcp
```

### Install from source (for development)

```bash
git clone https://github.com/andyliszewski/webcrawl.git
cd webcrawl
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate      # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -e .
```

## Configure your MCP client

### Claude Code

Create `.mcp.json` in your project root (or merge into `~/.claude/settings.json`):

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

This uses [`uvx`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/tools/) to run the package in a temporary environment — no manual install needed. If `uvx` is u…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.web-scraping (1, declared)
- dev.package-management (1, derived)
- infra.browser-automation (0.814, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/webcrawl-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T15:24:21.764Z)

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