Webclaw
Webclaw is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Fast, local-first web content extraction for LLMs. It has 2,390 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with npx -y @webclaw/mcp.
github.com/0xMassi/webclaw (opens in a new tab)
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Install Webclaw
Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.
Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"webclaw": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@webclaw/mcp"
]
}
}
}Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport stdio webclaw -- npx -y @webclaw/mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"webclaw": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@webclaw/mcp"
]
}
}
}Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.
VS Code
{
"servers": {
"webclaw": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@webclaw/mcp"
]
}
}
}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).
Tools (11)
Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.
scrapeExtract one URL as markdown, text, JSON, LLM format, or HTML
selectPick values or records from a page with CSS selectors or XPath, its data tables, elements found by text, or every…
screenshotCapture a page's viewport or the whole page as PNG or JPEG, print it to PDF, or save it as one MHTML file
crawlFollow same-origin links and extract discovered pages, most relevant first with a query
batchScrape multiple URLs in parallel
extractConvert page content into structured data
summarizeSummarize a page
diffCompare page content snapshots
brandExtract colors, fonts, logos, and metadata
searchSearch the web and scrape results
researchMulti-source research workflow
About Webclaw
Turn websites into clean markdown, JSON, and LLM-ready context. CLI, MCP server, REST API, and SDKs for AI agents and RAG pipelines.
- ai-agents
- cli
- llm
- markdown
- mcp
- rust
- self-hosted
- web-extraction
- web-scraping
- web-crawler
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How do I install the Webclaw MCP server?
Add the command npx -y @webclaw/mcp 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 Webclaw free?
The server is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.
Is Webclaw actively maintained?
The most recent commit was on Oct 20, 2026. The latest release is v0.7.0, published Oct 20, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.