ai-first-scraper-mcp

Plug Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Cline straight into an ad-free web scraper + search engine. Three tools, one line of config.

What it does

Adds three tools to any MCP-compatible agent:

No more "the model called curl and then tried to parse 80kB of ad HTML." Your agent receives clean Markdown ready to reason about.

Backed by the ai-first-scraper and ai-first-search APIs.

Install

Fastest — uvx (no install, runs from PyPI on demand)

// claude_desktop_config.json  /  cline_mcp_settings.json  /  ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-first-scraper": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["ai-first-scraper-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart your client (Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline). The three tools above will appear automatically.

Alternative — pip install

pip install ai-first-scraper-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-first-scraper": {
      "command": "ai-first-scraper-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Where the config file lives

Point at your own backend (optional)

By default this server calls the public ai-first-scraper.onrender.com and ai-first-search.onrender.com instances. If you want to self-host, set env vars in your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-first-scraper": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["ai-first-scraper-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SCRAPER_URL": "https://your-scraper.example.com",
        "SEARCH_URL":  "https://your-search.example.com",
        "AFS_TIMEOUT": "60"
      }
    }
  }
}

Verify it works

Open your MCP client and ask the agent:

"Use the search_web tool to find the top 3 recent articles about MCP and summarize them in 5 bullets each."

You should see the agent call search_web, get back Markdown for each result, and produce the summary without ever touching raw HTML.

Companion projects

• ai-first-scraper — the per-URL Markdown cleaner this MCP server fans out to.
• ai-first-search — search → scrape → markdown pipeline.
• mcp-rec — record & replay any MCP server's traffic for tests and bug reports.
• llm-cache-proxy — local cache for OpenAI/Anthropic API calls.
• promptlocker — lockfile for prompts.
• context-diff — see what blew up your Claude Code context window.
• agentwatch — overlay for browser AI agents.

Develop locally

git clone https://github.com/yubinkim444/ai-first-scraper-mcp.git
cd ai-first-scraper-mcp

uv sync                    # or: pip install -e .
ai-first-scraper-mcp       # speaks MCP over stdio

To test against a local client, point its MCP config at the same command.

About the author

Built by yubinkim444, who also makes Kay's Records — an app for iOS and Android.

If this project saved you time, giving the app a try is the nicest way to say thanks.

License

MIT © yubinkim444