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PyScrappy

PyScrappy is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Web-scraping toolkit with 22 tools for structured web data as JSON for AI agents. It has 263 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx pyscrappy.

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Install PyScrappy

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

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyscrappy": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pyscrappy"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OMDB_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env OMDB_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio pyscrappy -- uvx pyscrappy

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyscrappy": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pyscrappy"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OMDB_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "omdb_api_key",
      "description": "OMDB_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "pyscrappy": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pyscrappy"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OMDB_API_KEY": "${input:omdb_api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
OMDB_API_KEYsecretNoOptional free OMDb API key, used only by the movie lookup tool (get one at https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx).

About PyScrappy

Adaptive Python web scraping toolkit (self-healing, stealth) + MCP server for AI agents PyScrappy is an AI-native web scraping toolkit that turns websites into structured, LLM-ready data. Use it as a Python library or expose it as an MCP server for AI agents.

  • python
  • pyscrappy
  • web-scrapping
  • ecommerce-scrapper
  • food-scrapper
  • image-scrapper
  • news-scrapper
  • social-media-scrapper
  • song-scrapper
  • stock-scrapper

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FAQ

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How do I install the PyScrappy MCP server?

Add the command uvx pyscrappy 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 PyScrappy free?

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

Is PyScrappy actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 22, 2026. The latest release is v1.6.4, published Sep 25, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.