# PyScrappy (MCP server)

> 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 260 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx 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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy |
| GitHub stars | 260 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | Python |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | pypi: pyscrappy |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Web & browsing |
| Latest release | v1.6.4 (Sep 25, 2026) |
| Last commit | Sep 25, 2026 |
| MCP registry name | io.github.mldsveda/pyscrappy |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```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

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

### Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

```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)

```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 2026-10-07.

## Environment variables

- `OMDB_API_KEY` (secret): Optional free OMDb API key, used only by the movie lookup tool (get one at https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx).

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