Oxylabs Web Scraping MCP server for AI agents

The Oxylabs MCP server provides a bridge between AI models and the web, delivering clean, structured data from any website through a single API. It enables scraping of URLs, rendering of JavaScript-heavy pages, and bypassing of anti-scraping measures with access to geo-restricted content from over 195 countries.

Installation and Configuration

Prerequisites

Before starting, you'll need at least one of the following:

Oxylabs Web Scraper API Account: Get your username and password from Oxylabs (1-week free trial available)
Oxylabs AI Studio API Key: Obtain from Oxylabs AI Studio (1000 free credits)

Environment Variables

The server uses these environment variables:

Name	Description	Default
`OXYLABS_USERNAME`	Your Oxylabs Web Scraper API username
`OXYLABS_PASSWORD`	Your Oxylabs Web Scraper API password
`OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY`	Your Oxylabs AI Studio API key
`LOG_LEVEL`	Log level for client-returned logs	`INFO`

Important: Delete any environment variable placeholders for services you don't have credentials for. Leaving placeholder values will result in non-functional tools.

Setup with uvx

Install the uvx package manager:

# macOS and Linux
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Windows
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Use this configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oxylabs": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["oxylabs-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OXYLABS_USERNAME": "OXYLABS_USERNAME",
        "OXYLABS_PASSWORD": "OXYLABS_PASSWORD",
        "OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY": "OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Setup with uv

Install the uv package manager:

# macOS and Linux
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Windows
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Use this configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oxylabs": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/<Absolute-path-to-folder>/oxylabs-mcp",
        "run",
        "oxylabs-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OXYLABS_USERNAME": "OXYLABS_USERNAME",
        "OXYLABS_PASSWORD": "OXYLABS_PASSWORD",
        "OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY": "OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Setup with Smithery

Go to https://smithery.ai/server/@oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp
Login with GitHub or Google
Find the Connect section
Follow the instructions to generate the config or auto install command

Setup with Claude Desktop

Navigate to Claude → Settings → Developer → Edit Config and add one of the configurations above to the claude_desktop_config.json file.

Setup with Cursor AI

Navigate to Cursor → Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP. Click Add new global MCP server and add one of the configurations above.

Available Tools

Oxylabs MCP provides two sets of tools:

Web Scraper API Tools

universal_scraper: General website scraping
google_search_scraper: Extract results from Google Search
amazon_search_scraper: Scrape Amazon search result pages
amazon_product_scraper: Extract data from Amazon product pages

AI Studio Tools

ai_scraper: Extract content from any URL in JSON or Markdown format
ai_crawler: Crawl websites and collect data across multiple pages
ai_browser_agent: Control a browser based on prompts, returning data in various formats
ai_search: Search the web for URLs and extract content

Logging

The server provides additional information about tool calls in notification/message events:

{
  "method": "notifications/message",
  "params": {
    "level": "info",
    "data": "Create job with params: {\"url\": \"https://ip.oxylabs.io\"}"
  }
}

{
  "method": "notifications/message",
  "params": {
    "level": "info",
    "data": "Job info: job_id=7333113830223918081 job_status=done"
  }
}

{
  "method": "notifications/message",
  "params": {
    "level": "error",
    "data": "Error: request to Oxylabs API failed"
  }
}

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 "oxylabs" '{"command":"uvx","args":["oxylabs-mcp"],"env":{"OXYLABS_USERNAME":"OXYLABS_USERNAME","OXYLABS_PASSWORD":"OXYLABS_PASSWORD"}}'

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": {
        "oxylabs": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "oxylabs-mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "OXYLABS_USERNAME": "OXYLABS_USERNAME",
                "OXYLABS_PASSWORD": "OXYLABS_PASSWORD"
            }
        }
    }
}

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": {
        "oxylabs": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "oxylabs-mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "OXYLABS_USERNAME": "OXYLABS_USERNAME",
                "OXYLABS_PASSWORD": "OXYLABS_PASSWORD"
            }
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect