
PyScrappy is an AI-native web scraping toolkit that turns websites into structured, LLM-ready data. Use it as a Python library or expose it as an MCP server for AI agents.
π Documentation: pyscrappy.vercel.app
Key features
- Generic scraper β give it any URL, get back structured text, links, images, tables, and metadata
- LLM-ready output β
.to_markdown() turns any result into clean Markdown; also .to_json() and .to_dataframe()
- MCP server β expose the scrapers as tools for AI agents (Claude, Cursor, local LLMs, β¦)
- JS rendering β optional Playwright backend for JavaScript-heavy sites
- Custom selectors β pass CSS selectors to extract exactly what you need
- Concurrent scraping β
scrape_many / scrape_all run scrapes in parallel
- Proxy & scraping-API support β route through a proxy or ScraperAPI/ScrapeOps for blocked sites
- Retry & rate-limiting β built-in exponential backoff and per-domain rate limiting
- Type-safe β full type hints,
py.typed marker
- 20+ built-in scrapers β Wikipedia, IMDB, stocks, news, GitHub, Amazon/IKEA, YouTube, and more
Installation
Optional extras:
pip install 'pyscrappy[browser]'
playwright install chromium
pip install 'pyscrappy[dataframe]'
pip install 'pyscrappy[mcp]'
pip install 'pyscrappy[all]'
For AI agents
PyScrappy ships an MCP server that
exposes its scrapers as tools, so an agent (Claude, Cursor, an OpenAI agent, a
local LLM) can pull structured web data from any URL and hand it straight to the
model:
AI agent ββMCP tool callβββΆ PyScrappy ββfetch + extractβββΆ Any website
β² β
βββββββββββββββ clean Markdown / JSON βββββββββββββββββββββββββ
pip install 'pyscrappy[mcp]'
claude mcp add pyscrappy pyscrappy-mcp
Then just ask: "use pyscrappy to summarize the latest headlines from bbc.com."
See MCP server for the full setup
and tool list.
Local models (Ollama), no MCP host needed
Ollama can't talk MCP on its own, so normally you'd run a host (Goose, Cline, β¦)
in between. PyScrappy skips that with a built-in agent that talks to Ollama
directly and lets a local model call the scrapers as tools:
pip install 'pyscrappy[mcp]'
pyscrappy chat --model qwen2.5 "what's the current AAPL quote?"
It exposes the same 22 tools as the MCP server. The only requirement is a model
that supports tool calling (Llama 3.1, Qwen 2.5, Mistral, β¦); how well it
picks the right tool is up to the model. Point it at a remote Ollama with
--host, and pass -v to see each tool call.
MCP server (use PyScrappy from an AI agent)
PyScrappy ships an optional Model Context Protocol
server, so an AI agent (e.g. Claude) can call PyScrappy's scrapers as tools and
get structured web data back.
pip install 'pyscrappy[mcp]'
This installs a pyscrappy-mcp command (a stdio MCP server). You can also run it
with python -m pyscrappy.mcp.
Register with Claude Code
claude mcp add pyscrappy pyscrappy-mcp
Register with Claude Desktop
Add to your claude_desktop_config.json and restart the app:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pyscrappy": {
"command": "pyscrappy-mcp"
}
}
}
Tip: Claude Desktop does not inherit your shell PATH. If pyscrappy-mcp
is not found, use the absolute path to the command (e.g. the one printed by
which pyscrappy-mcp).
| Tool | Description |
|---|
scrape_url | Scrape any URL β text, links, images, tables, metadata |
scrape_wikipedia | Fetch a Wikipedia article (full / paragraphs / headers) |
scrape_stock | Yahoo Finance quotes, history, and profiles |
scrape_news | RSS/Atom feeds, auto-discovered site feeds, or a single article |
search_images | Image search (returns URLs + metadata) |
search_youtube | YouTube video search |
search_linkedin_jobs | Public LinkedIn job listings |
search_github | GitHub repository search (stars, language, β¦) |
search_hackernews | Hacker News story search (points, comments) |
search_books | Book search via Open Library (title, author, year) |
get_weather | Current weather for a place (no key) |
get_crypto | Cryptocurrency prices and market data (CoinGecko) |
convert_currency | Exchange rates and currency conversion |
define_word | Word definitions and examples |
search_amazon | Amazon product search |
search_newegg | Newegg electronics / computer hardware search |
search_ikea | IKEA furniture / home search |
search_soundcloud | SoundCloud track search (uses the browser backend) |
lookup_movie | Movie/TV info from IMDB by title or id (via OMDb; needs OMDB_API_KEY) |
scrape_zomato | Restaurant listings by city |
search_ubereats | Uber Eats restaurants by city |
get_ubereats_menu | An Uber Eats restaurant's full menu (from its store URL) |
The lookup_movie tool needs a free OMDb API
key. Pass it to the server through your MCP client config, e.g. for Claude Desktop:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pyscrappy": {
"command": "pyscrappy-mcp",
"env": { "OMDB_API_KEY": "your-key" }
}
}
}
Once registered, just ask the agent naturally, e.g. "use pyscrappy to get the
latest headlines from bbc.co.uk and the AAPL stock quote."
Built-in scrapers
Every scraper that works without a proxy is also exposed as an MCP tool (last column).
| Scraper | What it does | Browser? | MCP tool |
|---|
GenericScraper | Scrape any URL with auto-extraction | Optional | scrape_url |
| Data / Research | | | |
WikipediaScraper | Articles, sections, infoboxes | No | scrape_wikipedia |
IMDBScraper | Movie/TV info by title or id (via OMDb API; needs OMDB_API_KEY) | No | lookup_movie |
StockScraper | Quotes, history, profiles (Yahoo Finance) | No | scrape_stock |
NewsScraper | RSS/Atom feeds, article extraction | No | scrape_news |
ImageSearchScraper | Image search + download | No | search_images |
LinkedInJobsScraper | Public job listings | No | search_linkedin_jobs |
GitHubScraper | Repository search (stars, language, β¦) via GitHub API | No | search_github |
HackerNewsScraper | Story search (points, comments) via HN API | No | search_hackernews |
OpenLibraryScraper | Book search (title, author, year) via Open Library | No | search_books |
WeatherScraper | Current weather by place, via Open-Meteo (no key) | No | get_weather |
CryptoScraper | Crypto prices / market cap via CoinGecko (no key) | No | get_crypto |
CurrencyScraper | Currency exchange rates + conversion (no key) | No | convert_currency |
DictionaryScraper | Word definitions, examples (Free Dictionary API) | No | define_word |
| E-Commerce | | | |
AmazonScraper | Product search | No | search_amazon |
NeweggScraper | Electronics / computer hardware search | No | search_newegg |
IKEAScraper | Furniture / home search, per-country prices (JSON API) | No | search_ikea |
| Social Media | | | |
YouTubeScraper | Video search, channel scraping | Optional | search_youtube |
InstagramScraper | Profiles, hashtag posts (blocked; needs proxy) | Recommended | β |
TwitterScraper | Tweet search (blocked; needs proxy) | Recommended | β |
| Music | | | |
SpotifyScraper | Track/playlist search (blocked; needs proxy) | Recommended | β |
SoundCloudScraper | Track search | Optional | search_soundcloud |
| Food Delivery | | | |
ZomatoScraper | Restaurant listings by city | Recommended | scrape_zomato |
UberEatsScraper | Restaurants by city + full menus (any Uber Eats country) | No | search_ubereats, get_ubereats_menu |
Quick start
Scrape any URL β clean, LLM-ready Markdown
from pyscrappy import scrape
result = scrape("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping")
print(result.to_markdown())
Prefer raw fields? Every result is a ScrapeResult with .data (a list of
dicts):
print(result.data[0]["metadata"]["title"])
print(result.data[0]["text"]["word_count"])
Custom CSS selectors
from pyscrappy import GenericScraper
with GenericScraper() as gs:
result = gs.scrape(
url="https://news.ycombinator.com",
selectors={"title": ".titleline a", "score": ".score"},
)
for item in result.data:
print(item["title"], item.get("score", ""))
Wikipedia
from pyscrappy import WikipediaScraper
with WikipediaScraper() as ws:
result = ws.scrape(query="Python (programming language)", mode="summary")
print(result.data[0]["text"])
Stock data
from pyscrappy import StockScraper
with StockScraper() as ss:
result = ss.scrape(symbol="AAPL", mode="history", period="1mo")
df = result.to_dataframe()
print(df.head())
IMDB (via OMDb API)
IMDB's own pages are protected by an anti-bot challenge, so PyScrappy fetches IMDB
data through the free OMDb API. Set an OMDb API key in
the OMDB_API_KEY environment variable (or pass api_key=...).
from pyscrappy import IMDBScraper
with IMDBScraper() as scraper:
result = scraper.scrape(query="inception")
result = scraper.scrape(query="tt1375666")
df = result.to_dataframe()
print(df[["title", "year", "rating", "genre"]])
from pyscrappy import NewsScraper
with NewsScraper() as ns:
result = ns.scrape(feed_url="https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml")
for article in result.data[:5]:
print(article["title"])
Image search
from pyscrappy import ImageSearchScraper
with ImageSearchScraper() as iss:
result = iss.scrape(query="golden retriever", max_images=10, download_to="./dogs")
YouTube
from pyscrappy import YouTubeScraper
with YouTubeScraper() as scraper:
result = scraper.scrape(query="python tutorial", max_results=10)
for video in result.data:
print(video["title"], video.get("views", ""))
SoundCloud
from pyscrappy import SoundCloudScraper
with SoundCloudScraper() as scraper:
result = scraper.scrape(query="lo-fi beats", max_results=10)
E-Commerce (Amazon, Newegg, IKEA)
from pyscrappy import AmazonScraper, NeweggScraper, IKEAScraper
with AmazonScraper() as scraper:
result = scraper.scrape(query="laptop", max_pages=2)
with NeweggScraper() as scraper:
result = scraper.scrape(query="graphics card", max_pages=2)
with IKEAScraper(country="gb", lang="en") as scraper:
result = scraper.scrape(query="desk", max_results=24)
df = result.to_dataframe()
Food Delivery (Zomato, Uber Eats)
from pyscrappy import ZomatoScraper, UberEatsScraper
with ZomatoScraper() as scraper:
result = scraper.scrape(city="bangalore", max_results=20)
with UberEatsScraper(locale="gb") as scraper:
result = scraper.scrape(city="London", max_results=30)
store = result.data[0]
menu = scraper.get_menu(store["url"])
Configuration
from pyscrappy import ScraperConfig, GenericScraper
config = ScraperConfig(
timeout=20.0,
max_retries=3,
rate_limit=2.0,
proxy="http://...",
scraper_api=None,
headless=True,
render_js="auto",
cache_ttl=0,
)
with GenericScraper(config) as gs:
result = gs.scrape(url="https://example.com")
Proxies and blocked sites
Some sites (e.g. eBay, Instagram, Twitter/X, Spotify) block direct automated
requests. PyScrappy supports two ways to get through them.
A proxy (or a rotating list) β applies to both the HTTP and browser backends:
from pyscrappy import ScraperConfig, AmazonScraper
config = ScraperConfig(proxy="http://user:pass@host:port")
config = ScraperConfig(proxy=["http://p1:8080", "http://p2:8080"])
A scraping-API service (ScraperAPI, ScrapeOps, ScrapingBee) β routes requests
through the service, which handles proxies and anti-bot challenges for you:
config = ScraperConfig(scraper_api={
"provider": "scraperapi",
"api_key": "YOUR_KEY",
"render_js": True,
})
with AmazonScraper(config) as scraper:
result = scraper.scrape(query="laptop")
This is the reliable way to use the scrapers marked "needs proxy" above.
Concurrent scraping
Scraping is I/O-bound, so running several scrapes at once parallelizes the
network waits. scrape_many runs one scraper over many inputs; scrape_all
runs a mix of scrapers together. Both preserve input order.
from pyscrappy import scrape_many, scrape_all, AmazonScraper, WikipediaScraper, NewsScraper
results = scrape_many(AmazonScraper, [{"query": "laptop"}, {"query": "phone"}])
results = scrape_all([
lambda: WikipediaScraper().scrape(query="Python"),
lambda: NewsScraper().scrape(feed_url="https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml"),
])
Response caching
Set cache_ttl to a positive number of seconds to cache successful GET
responses. Repeated requests for the same URL (and query params) within the TTL
are served from cache, skipping both the network and the rate limiter. Caching
is disabled by default (cache_ttl=0).
from pyscrappy import WikipediaScraper
from pyscrappy import ScraperConfig
config = ScraperConfig(cache_ttl=300)
with WikipediaScraper(config) as ws:
ws.scrape(query="Python")
ws.scrape(query="Python")
The cache is in memory and shared across scraper instances in the same process
(so it also speeds up repeated calls through the MCP server), and is cleared
when the process exits. Call HttpClient.clear_cache() to empty it manually.
Dependencies
Required: httpx, beautifulsoup4, lxml
Optional: playwright (JS rendering), pandas (DataFrames), mcp (MCP server)
License
MIT
Contributing
All contributions welcome. See Issues.
This package is for educational and research purposes.