PyScrappy

PyScrappy: Python web scraping toolkit + 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.

📖 Documentation: pyscrappy.vercel.app

Key features

• Generic scraper — give it any URL, get back structured text, links, images, tables, and metadata
• LLM-ready output — .to_markdown() turns any result into clean Markdown; also .to_json() and .to_dataframe()
• MCP server — expose the scrapers as tools for AI agents (Claude, Cursor, local LLMs, …)
• JS rendering — optional Playwright backend for JavaScript-heavy sites
• Custom selectors — pass CSS selectors to extract exactly what you need
• Concurrent scraping — scrape_many / scrape_all run scrapes in parallel
• Proxy & scraping-API support — route through a proxy or ScraperAPI/ScrapeOps for blocked sites
• Retry & rate-limiting — built-in exponential backoff and per-domain rate limiting
• Type-safe — full type hints, py.typed marker
• 20+ built-in scrapers — Wikipedia, IMDB, stocks, news, GitHub, Amazon/IKEA, YouTube, and more

Installation

pip install pyscrappy

Optional extras:

# Browser support (for JS-rendered pages)
pip install 'pyscrappy[browser]'
playwright install chromium

# DataFrame support
pip install 'pyscrappy[dataframe]'

# MCP server (use PyScrappy's scrapers as AI-agent tools)
pip install 'pyscrappy[mcp]'

# Everything
pip install 'pyscrappy[all]'

For AI agents

PyScrappy ships an MCP server that exposes its scrapers as tools, so an agent (Claude, Cursor, an OpenAI agent, a local LLM) can pull structured web data from any URL and hand it straight to the model:

AI agent  ──MCP tool call──▶  PyScrappy  ──fetch + extract──▶  Any website
   ▲                                                                │
   └──────────────  clean Markdown / JSON  ◀───────────────────────┘

pip install 'pyscrappy[mcp]'
claude mcp add pyscrappy pyscrappy-mcp

Then just ask: "use pyscrappy to summarize the latest headlines from bbc.com." See MCP server for the full setup and tool list.

Local models (Ollama), no MCP host needed

Ollama can't talk MCP on its own, so normally you'd run a host (Goose, Cline, …) in between. PyScrappy skips that with a built-in agent that talks to Ollama directly and lets a local model call the scrapers as tools:

pip install 'pyscrappy[mcp]'                 # needs Python 3.10+
pyscrappy chat --model qwen2.5 "what's the current AAPL quote?"

It exposes the same 22 tools as the MCP server. The only requirement is a model that supports tool calling (Llama 3.1, Qwen 2.5, Mistral, …); how well it picks the right tool is up to the model. Point it at a remote Ollama with --host, and pass -v to see each tool call.

MCP server (use PyScrappy from an AI agent)

PyScrappy ships an optional Model Context Protocol server, so an AI agent (e.g. Claude) can call PyScrappy's scrapers as tools and get structured web data back.

pip install 'pyscrappy[mcp]'

The MCP extra installs the standalone fastmcp package and requires Python 3.10 or newer. On Python 3.9 the core scraping library still works, but the MCP server is unavailable.

This installs the pyscrappy-mcp command. It uses stdio by default for local MCP clients; Streamable HTTP and legacy SSE are available for remote deployments:

pyscrappy-mcp          # stdio (default)
pyscrappy-mcp --http   # Streamable HTTP
pyscrappy-mcp --sse    # legacy SSE

You can also run the stdio server with python -m pyscrappy.mcp.

Register with Claude Code

claude mcp add pyscrappy pyscrappy-mcp

Register with Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json and restart the app:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyscrappy": {
      "command": "pyscrappy-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tip: Claude Desktop does not inherit your shell PATH. If pyscrappy-mcp is not found, use the absolute path to the command (e.g. the one printed by which pyscrappy-mcp).

Available tools

The lookup_movie tool needs a free OMDb API key. Pass it to the server through your MCP client config, e.g. for Claude Desktop:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyscrappy": {
      "command": "pyscrappy-mcp",
      "env": { "OMDB_API_KEY": "your-key" }
    }
  }
}

Once registered, just ask the agent naturally, e.g. "use pyscrappy to get the latest headlines from bbc.co.uk and the AAPL stock quote."

Built-in scrapers

Every scraper that works without a proxy is also exposed as an MCP tool (last column).

Plugins

PyScrappy is extensible: you can add your own scrapers, and third parties can ship them as standalone pyscrappy-<name> packages. A registered scraper works everywhere a built-in does, including the MCP server and the pyscrappy chat agent, with no change to