firecrawl-mcp-server and scrapi-mcp
These are competitors offering overlapping web scraping capabilities through MCP servers, though Firecrawl provides more comprehensive features (including search) while ScrAPI appears to be a lighter-weight alternative.
About firecrawl-mcp-server
firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server
🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.
Implements MCP (Model Context Protocol) server using stdio transport with optional HTTP Streamable mode, exposing Firecrawl's scraping, crawling, search, and agent-browser automation capabilities as callable tools. Supports both cloud and self-hosted Firecrawl instances with configurable retry logic, exponential backoff, and credit usage monitoring. Integrates directly with Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and Windsurf through standardized MCP server configuration.
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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