ScrapingAnt MCP: rendered web pages for your AI app

Connecting ScrapingAnt to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Scrapingant free and sign in with your ScrapingAnt account.
2. 2Fetches draw on your ScrapingAnt credits. Keep the markdown and AI extraction tools your work needs and switch off raw HTML or extended scraping if you don't use them.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app to read a competitor's pricing page as markdown and list the plans, then open Activity to see the fetch.

Web data for Claude or ChatGPT

• Turn a JavaScript-heavy page into markdown your AI app can read.
• Describe the fields you want and get structured data back from a page.
• Get a page's HTML, or a richer JSON response with more detail.
• Check how many API credits you've used.

Know what was fetched

• Switch off scraping tools you don't need; they're hidden and refused if called.
• Policies check every call, so a token in a URL's query string can be blocked.
• Activity records every URL your AI apps fetched through ScrapingAnt.

What you get with Scrapingant and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use ScrapingantClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Scrapingant through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Scrapingant tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Scrapingant tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Scrapingant. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Extract Content as MarkdownThis tool extracts content from a given url and converts it into markdown format. it is particularly useful for preparing text for language learning models (llms) and retrieval-augmented generation (r
• Extract Data with AIThis tool allows you to extract structured data from a web page using scrapingant's ai-powered extraction capabilities. you provide a url and an ai query (prompt) describing what data you want to extr
• Get API Credits UsageThis tool retrieves the current api credit usage status for the authenticated scrapingant account. it enables users to monitor their consumption of api credits, check their current usage against the s
• Scrape Web PageThis tool scrapes a web page using the scrapingant api. it fetches the html content of the specified url. users can customize the scraping behavior by enabling a headless browser, using proxies, waiti
• Scrape with Extended JSON OutputThis tool scrapes a target url and returns an extended json response. it utilizes scrapingant's /v2/extended endpoint, providing richer information than the standard scraping tool, including page html