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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 2,369 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

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "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/mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webclaw": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@webclaw/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "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 (9)

Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.

  • scrape

    Extract one URL as markdown, text, JSON, LLM format, or HTML

  • crawl

    Follow same-origin links and extract discovered pages

  • batch

    Scrape multiple URLs in parallel

  • extract

    Convert page content into structured data

  • summarize

    Summarize a page

  • diff

    Compare page content snapshots

  • brand

    Extract colors, fonts, logos, and metadata

  • search

    Search the web and scrape results

  • research

    Multi-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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What is 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 2,369 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with npx -y @webclaw/mcp. The source code is at github.com/0xMassi/webclaw.

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 Sep 23, 2026. The latest release is v0.6.23, published Sep 14, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.