Web Content Pick MCP server

The MCP Web Content Pick tool helps you extract structured content from websites. It provides customizable selectors for targeting specific elements and supports recursive crawling with various configuration options to efficiently gather web content.

Installation

Install the tool globally using npm:

npm install -g mcp-web-content-pick

Configuration

To use the tool with Claude, you need to configure it in your Claude desktop configuration file. Create or modify the claude_desktop_config.json file with the following configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web_content_search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-web-content-pick"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Usage

Once installed and configured, you can use the tool to extract content from web pages. The tool supports various selectors and crawling options:

Basic Extraction

You can extract content from a webpage by specifying the URL and CSS selectors for the content you want to target.

Advanced Features

The tool includes several powerful features:

• Customizable CSS Selectors: Target specific elements on the page
• Recursive Crawling: Follow links with configurable depth control
• Automatic Retry: Built-in retry mechanism for failed requests
• Clean Output Format: Get results in a structured, hierarchical format

Output

The extracted content is returned in a structured format that preserves the hierarchy of the selected elements, making it easy to process and use in your applications.

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 "web_content_search" '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","mcp-web-content-pick"]}'

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": {
        "web_content_search": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "mcp-web-content-pick"
            ]
        }
    }
}

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": {
        "web_content_search": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "mcp-web-content-pick"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect