Is Anycrawl Mcp Server safe to use?

Anycrawl Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.

How do I install Anycrawl Mcp Server?

Anycrawl Mcp Server supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What AI clients work with Anycrawl Mcp Server?

Anycrawl Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Anycrawl Mcp Server actively maintained?

Anycrawl Mcp Server is recently maintained — last commit was 70 days ago. It has 6 GitHub stars.

Anycrawl Mcp Server

Name: Anycrawl Mcp Server
Author: any4ai

anycrawl-mcp · by any4ai

AnyCrawl MCP Server, with Scrape, Crawl and SERP.

6 38/wk 0 tools GitHub npm

No known CVEs

No license

Maintained

Last commit 70d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

0 tools

Grade F

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anycrawl-mcp": {
      "env": {
        "ANYCRAWL_API_KEY": "YOUR-API-KEY"
      },
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "anycrawl-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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AnyCrawl MCP Server, with Scrape, Crawl and SERP.

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Is Anycrawl Mcp Server safe to use?: Anycrawl Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.
How do I install Anycrawl Mcp Server?: Anycrawl Mcp Server supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Anycrawl Mcp Server?: Anycrawl Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Anycrawl Mcp Server actively maintained?: Anycrawl Mcp Server is recently maintained — last commit was 70 days ago. It has 6 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anycrawl-mcp": {
      "env": {
        "ANYCRAWL_API_KEY": "YOUR-API-KEY"
      },
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "anycrawl-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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AnyCrawl MCP Server, with Scrape, Crawl and SERP.

Test This Server

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AnyCrawl MCP Server

🚀 AnyCrawl MCP Server — Powerful web scraping and crawling for Cursor, Claude, and other LLM clients via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Features

Web Scraping: Extract content from single URLs with multiple output formats
Website Crawling: Crawl entire websites with configurable depth and limits
Search Engine Integration: Search the web and optionally scrape results
Multiple Engines: Auto mode (intelligent selection), Playwright, Cheerio, and Puppeteer
Flexible Output: Markdown, HTML, text, screenshots, and structured JSON
Async Operations: Non-blocking crawl jobs with status monitoring
Error Handling: Robust error handling and logging
Multiple Modes: STDIO (default), MCP(HTTP), SSE; cloud-ready with Nginx proxy

Installation

Running with npx

ANYCRAWL_API_KEY=YOUR-API-KEY npx -y anycrawl-mcp

Manual installation

npm install -g anycrawl-mcp-server

ANYCRAWL_API_KEY=YOUR-API-KEY anycrawl-mcp

Configuration

AnyCrawl MCP Server supports two deployment modes: Cloud Service (recommended) and Self-Hosted.

Cloud Service (Recommended)

Use the AnyCrawl cloud service at mcp.anycrawl.dev. No server setup required.

# Only need your API key
export ANYCRAWL_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

Cloud endpoints:

MCP (streamable_http): https://mcp.anycrawl.dev/{API_KEY}/mcp
SSE: https://mcp.anycrawl.dev/{API_KEY}/sse

Self-Hosted Deployment

For self-hosted deployments, configure the base URL to point to your own AnyCrawl API instance:

export ANYCRAWL_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
export ANYCRAWL_BASE_URL="https://your-api-server.com"  # Your self-hosted API URL

For local development with custom host/port:

export ANYCRAWL_HOST="127.0.0.1"  # Default: mcp.anycrawl.dev (cloud)
export ANYCRAWL_PORT="3000"       # Default: 3000

Get your API key

Visit the AnyCrawl website and sign up or log in: AnyCrawl
🎉 Sign up for free to receive 1,500 credits — enough to crawl nearly 1,500 pages.
Open the dashboard → API Keys → Copy your key.
Copy the key and set it as the ANYCRAWL_API_KEY environment variable (see above).

Usage

Available Modes

AnyCrawl MCP Server supports the following deployment modes:

Default mode is STDIO (no env needed). Set ANYCRAWL_MODE to switch.

Mode	Description	Best For	Transport
`STDIO`	Standard MCP over stdio (default)	Command-type MCP clients, local tooling	stdio
`MCP`	Streamable HTTP (JSON, stateful)	Cursor (streamable_http), API integration	HTTP + JSON
`SSE`	Server-Sent Events	Web apps, browser integrations	HTTP + SSE

Quick Start Commands

# Development (local)
npm run dev            # STDIO (default)
npm run dev:mcp          # MCP mode (JSON /mcp)
npm run dev:sse          # SSE mode (/sse)

# Production (built output)
npm start              # STDIO (default)
npm run start:mcp
npm run start:sse

# Env examples
ANYCRAWL_MODE=MCP ANYCRAWL_API_KEY=YOUR-KEY npm run dev:mcp
ANYCRAWL_MODE=SSE ANYCRAWL_API_KEY=YOUR-KEY npm run dev:sse

Docker Compose (MCP + SSE with Nginx)

This repo ships a production-ready image that runs MCP (JSON) on port 3000 and SSE on port 3001 in the same container, fronted by Nginx. Nginx also supports API-key-prefixed paths /{API_KEY}/mcp and /{API_KEY}/sse and forwards the key via x-anycrawl-api-key header.

docker compose build
docker compose up -d

Environment variables used in Docker image:

ANYCRAWL_MODE: MCP_AND_SSE (default in compose), or MCP, SSE
ANYCRAWL_MCP_PORT: default 3000
ANYCRAWL_SSE_PORT: default 3001
CLOUD_SERVICE: true to extract API key fr

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How we score →

0255075100

−51

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Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked anycrawl-mcp against OSV.dev.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Anycrawl Mcp Server safe to use?: Anycrawl Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.
How do I install Anycrawl Mcp Server?: Anycrawl Mcp Server supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Anycrawl Mcp Server?: Anycrawl Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Anycrawl Mcp Server actively maintained?: Anycrawl Mcp Server is recently maintained — last commit was 70 days ago. It has 6 GitHub stars.