thunderbit-mcp-server (Model Context Protocol)

The io.github.thunderbit-open/thunderbit-mcp-server is an AI-powered web scraping MCP server. It distills web pages to Markdown or extracts structured data using JSON Schema, aligned with the Model Context Protocol and related tooling.

🛠️ Key Features

Web scraping via MCP server
Output as Markdown “distilled” pages
Structured data extraction using JSON Schema
Built for MCP, LLM, and developer workflows

🚀 Use Cases

Convert web content into Markdown for downstream processing
Extract fields from web pages into a structured JSON Schema format
Integrate scraping into Model Context Protocol–based agent systems

⚡ Developer Benefits

Supports structured-data pipelines via JSON Schema
Uses MCP conventions for tool-style integrations
Topics include mcp-server, model-context-protocol, and data-extraction

⚠️ Limitations

Source data only describes page distillation and JSON Schema extraction; other capabilities are not specified.

Thunderbit MCP Server

Open-source toolkit for the Thunderbit Open API — CLI, MCP server, and Claude Code plugin.

This monorepo ships three packages, all backed by the Thunderbit Open API:

Package

Purpose

Audience

@thunderbit/thunderbit-cli

Command-line tool for distill / extract / batch

Developers, scripts, CI

@thunderbit/mcp-server

Model Context Protocol server (7 tools)

AI assistants — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Claude Code

thunderbit Claude Code plugin

Bundled MCP + 4 skills

Claude Code users

Quick Start

CLI

bash

npm i -g @thunderbit/thunderbit-cli
export THUNDERBIT_API_KEY=tb_your_api_key_here
thunderbit distill https://example.com -f markdown

MCP Server (Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline)

Edit your MCP client config:

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thunderbit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@thunderbit/mcp-server"],
      "env": { "THUNDERBIT_API_KEY": "tb_your_api_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code Plugin

bash

claude plugin marketplace add thunderbit-com/thunderbit-mcp-server
claude plugin add thunderbit
export THUNDERBIT_API_KEY=tb_your_api_key_here

Install

Configuration

Environment variables

THUNDERBIT_API_KEYrequiredsecret

Your Thunderbit API key (tb_...). Get one at https://app.thunderbit.com/console

Add to VS Code Add to Cursor

claude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thunderbit-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@thunderbit/mcp-server@1.0.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "THUNDERBIT_API_KEY": "<YOUR_THUNDERBIT_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

io.github.thunderbit-open/thunderbit-mcp-server

thunderbit-mcp-server (Model Context Protocol)

🛠️ Key Features

🚀 Use Cases

⚡ Developer Benefits

⚠️ Limitations

Topics

Thunderbit MCP Server

Quick Start

CLI

MCP Server (Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline)

Claude Code Plugin

What you can do

Pricing

Development

API Reference

License

Install

Configuration

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