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Crawlberg

Crawlberg is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Scrape, crawl, and map websites to Markdown or JSON via local CLI. It has 192 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/xberg-io/crawlberg:1.12.0.

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Install Crawlberg

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crawlberg": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/xberg-io/crawlberg:1.12.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio crawlberg -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/xberg-io/crawlberg:1.12.0

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crawlberg": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/xberg-io/crawlberg:1.12.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "crawlberg": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/xberg-io/crawlberg:1.12.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Crawlberg

Turn any website into clean, structured data. Point Crawlberg at a URL and get back Markdown, metadata, and links — from a single page or a whole site — in the language you already use.

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How do I install the Crawlberg MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/xberg-io/crawlberg:1.12.0 to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Crawlberg free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Crawlberg actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 24, 2026. The latest release is v1.12.0, published Oct 22, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.