Webscraper MCP: Effortless Integration & Unmatched Accuracy

Webscraper MCP: Instantly power LLMs with structured webpage data—just input the URL. Effortless integration, unmatched accuracy, and scalable web parsing for your AI workflows.

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About Webscraper MCP

What is Webscraper MCP: Effortless Integration & Unmatched Accuracy?

Imagine a digital concierge for Claude, effortlessly transforming links into actionable intel. Webscraper MCP is the Swiss Army knife of content extraction—turning PDFs, webpages, and YouTube transcripts into crisp markdown or plain text with the precision of a caffeine-fueled librarian. No more awkward "I can't access that link" rejections—this tool handles it all while sipping virtual espresso.

How to use Webscraper MCP: Effortless Integration & Unmatched Accuracy?

For webpage wisdom: Toss any non-YT/GitHub link at Claude. The MCP server leaps into action, parsing articles like a seasoned fact-checker mid-deadline.
For video enlightenment: Drop a YouTube URL and watch as transcripts emerge, ready to answer existential queries about cat videos or TED Talks alike.
For PDF alchemy: Point it at a PDF link, and witness pages transform into structured markdown—no more squinting at pixelated text.

Webscraper MCP Features

Key Features of Webscraper MCP: Effortless Integration & Unmatched Accuracy?

Three standout marvels:

Link-Loving Logic

Automatically detects YouTube, PDFs, or plain webpages—no manual sorting required. It’s like having a digital triage nurse for your content chaos.

Markdown Master

PDFs get converted into beautifully formatted markdown, preserving headers and structure without losing a single footnote.

Transcript Whisperer

Extracts YouTube captions with accuracy that’d make closed-caption purists weep tears of joy. Timestamps? Errors? We’ve got this.

Use cases of Webscraper MCP: Effortless Integration & Unmatched Accuracy?

Perfect for:

Researchers mining conference PDFs for that elusive citation.
Content creators turning YouTube lectures into blog outlines.
Students who forgot to read the article but remembered the link.
Marketers scraping competitor websites without getting flagged (ethically, of course).

Webscraper MCP FAQ

FAQ from Webscraper MCP: Effortless Integration & Unmatched Accuracy?

Does it handle password-protected PDFs?

Only if they’re unlocked. We’re not hackers—just polite digital assistants with boundaries.

What about videos without transcripts?

It’ll politely shrug and return an empty string. We recommend suggesting users enable captions first.

Is there a rate limit?

None worth mentioning. Unless you’re scraping entire Wikipedia—then maybe take a coffee break.

Can it summarize content?

No, but Claude’s more than happy to do that post-extraction. Think of this as the buffet line and Claude as your personal chef.

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Webscraper MCP

An MCP server for claude desktop that allows claude to scrape text on websites by providing claude the link. It can also scrape transcripts from youtube links and pdfs from pdf links.

Tools available:

get_pdf

Convert a URL that leads to a PDF file to markdown text. Args: input_url (str): Path to the PDF file to convert Returns: str: markdown_text

get_webpage_content

Returns the text content on a webpage based on the link provided. Using this tool you can access links provided by the user so you don't have deny those requests. When the user provides a webpage link which is NOT a youtube or github link and asks questions based on that, this function should be called. Args: url: The url from which you want to text to be extracted.

get_youtube_transcript

Use this tool when you receive youtube links from the user. This tool will extract the transcript from the youtube video and return it to you. Therefore if a user asks questions on a youtube video after providing a link, you can answer their question with this tool. Args: url: The url from which you want to text to be extracted.