ScrapingBee MCP: web scraping inside your AI app

How to connect ScrapingBee to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Scrapingbee free and paste an API key from your ScrapingBee account.
2. 2Stealth proxy requests are meant for sites with anti-bot measures. If your AI app only reads ordinary pages, switch off stealth and proxy mode and keep HTML fetch and data extraction.
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 pull every product name and price from a category page using CSS selectors, then open Activity to see the scrape.

Scraping jobs for Claude or ChatGPT

• Fetch a page's HTML or a screenshot, with optional JavaScript rendering.
• Extract structured data with CSS or XPath selectors.
• Route requests through ScrapingBee's proxies, or stealth mode for sites with anti-bot measures.
• Check remaining credits and request counts.
• With ScrapingBee's own MCP server, search Google, Amazon, Walmart and YouTube.

Scrapes you can account for

• Switch off proxy or stealth tools if you don't need them; they're hidden and refused if called.
• Policies check every call, so an API key embedded in a target URL can be blocked.
• Activity records every URL your AI apps scrape.

What you get with Scrapingbee and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use ScrapingbeeClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Scrapingbee through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Scrapingbee 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.

Scrapingbee tools

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

• ScrapingBee Data ExtractionTool to extract structured data from a webpage using css or xpath selectors. use scrapingbee's extract rules feature.
• ScrapingBee HTML FetchTool to fetch html or screenshot via scrapingbee html api. use when you need page markup or image after optional js rendering and resource controls.
• ScrapingBee Proxy ModeTool to fetch web content via scrapingbee's proxy mode. use when you need to route requests through scrapingbee proxies with optional js rendering and resource blocking.
• ScrapingBee Stealth ProxyTool to perform stealth scraping via scrapingbee's stealth proxy mode. use when you encounter anti-bot measures requiring undetectable requests.
• ScrapingBee Usage StatsTool to retrieve usage statistics for your scrapingbee account. use when you need to monitor remaining credits and request count.