apify-mcp-server and scrapi-mcp
These are competitors offering different approaches to web scraping: Apify provides a managed platform with pre-built scrapers and actors, while ScrAPI offers a lightweight, self-contained scraping library—choose based on whether you prefer outsourced infrastructure versus local control.
About apify-mcp-server
apify/apify-mcp-server
The Apify MCP server enables your AI agents to extract data from social media, search engines, maps, e-commerce sites, or any other website using thousands of ready-made scrapers, crawlers, and automation tools available on the Apify Store.
Implements both hosted HTTPS (with OAuth support and output schema inference) and local stdio transports compatible with Claude Desktop, VS Code, and Cursor, allowing AI agents to dynamically discover and invoke Apify Actors as MCP tools. Includes Skyfire agentic payment integration, enabling models to execute paid scraping tasks autonomously without requiring API tokens, and supports real-time tool discovery with capability detection across heterogeneous MCP clients.
About scrapi-mcp
DevEnterpriseSoftware/scrapi-mcp
MCP server for using ScrAPI to scrape web pages.
Exposes two scraping tools that return content in HTML or Markdown formats, with support for browser automation commands (clicks, form filling, scrolling, JavaScript execution) to handle dynamic content and bot detection. Integrates with Claude Desktop and other MCP clients via stdio transport, with optional cloud deployment over SSE, and requires a ScrAPI API key for production use beyond free tier limitations.
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