Scrapling Fetch MCP server

The Scrapling Fetch MCP server provides AI assistants with the ability to access text content from websites that implement bot detection, enabling seamless retrieval of information that would otherwise be inaccessible to AI systems.

Installation Requirements

To use this tool, you'll need:

• Python 3.10 or newer
• The uv package manager

Installation Steps

Install the required components using the following commands:

uv tool install scrapling
scrapling install
uv tool install scrapling-fetch-mcp

Configuring with Claude

To integrate with Claude, add the following configuration to your Claude client's MCP server settings:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Cyber-Chitta": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["scrapling-fetch-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

The package offers two specialized tools:

s-fetch-page

This tool retrieves complete web pages and supports pagination for handling large content.

Parameters:

• url: The web page to fetch
• mode: Protection level (basic, stealth, or max-stealth)
• start_index (optional): Starting point for pagination
• max_length (optional): Maximum content length to return

s-fetch-pattern

This tool extracts content matching specific regex patterns along with surrounding context.

Parameters:

• url: The web page to search
• mode: Protection level (basic, stealth, or max-stealth)
• search_pattern: Regular expression pattern to find
• context_chars: Number of characters to include before and after matches

Usage Examples

Fetching a Complete Page

<mcp:function_calls>
<mcp:invoke name="s-fetch-page">
<mcp:parameter name="url">https://example.com/docs</mcp:parameter>
<mcp:parameter name="mode">basic</mcp:parameter>
</mcp:invoke>
</mcp:function_calls>

Extracting Specific Content

<mcp:function_calls>
<mcp:invoke name="s-fetch-pattern">
<mcp:parameter name="url">https://example.com/docs</mcp:parameter>
<mcp:parameter name="mode">stealth</mcp:parameter>
<mcp:parameter name="search_pattern">API\s+keys?</mcp:parameter>
<mcp:parameter name="context_chars">150</mcp:parameter>
</mcp:invoke>
</mcp:function_calls>

Protection Levels

The server offers three levels of protection against bot detection:

• basic: Fast retrieval (1-2 seconds) but may not work with heavily protected sites
• stealth: Balanced protection (3-8 seconds) that works with most sites
• max-stealth: Maximum protection (10+ seconds) for heavily protected sites

Best Practices

• Begin with basic mode and only increase to higher protection levels if needed
• For large documents, utilize the pagination parameters with s-fetch-page
• Use s-fetch-pattern to locate specific information within large pages
• The tool is designed for text content retrieval, not bulk data harvesting
• Performance may vary depending on the complexity of the target website

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "Cyber-Chitta" '{"command":"uvx","args":["scrapling-fetch-mcp"]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "Cyber-Chitta": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "scrapling-fetch-mcp"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "Cyber-Chitta": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "scrapling-fetch-mcp"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect