Published to the MCP registry as io.github.0xMassi/webclaw@0.6.17. Description no longer names a competitor (public-scrubbing posture); packages[].version stays 0.6.16 (the live @webclaw/mcp on npm — the registry validates it exists). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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One command to give your AI agent reliable web access.
No headless browser. No Puppeteer. No 403s.
Quick Start
npx create-webclaw
That's it. Auto-detects your AI tools and writes the npx @webclaw/mcp config into each — nothing to install.
Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, OpenCode, Codex CLI, and Antigravity.
The Problem
Your AI agent calls fetch() and gets a 403. Cloudflare, Akamai, and every major CDN fingerprint the TLS handshake and block non-browser clients before the request hits the server.
When it does work, you get 100KB+ of raw HTML — navigation, ads, cookie banners, scripts. Your agent burns 4,000+ tokens parsing noise.
The Fix
webclaw impersonates the latest Chrome at the TLS protocol level. Perfect JA4 fingerprint. Perfect HTTP/2 Akamai hash. 99% bypass rate on 102 tested sites.
Then it extracts just the content — clean markdown, 67% fewer tokens.
Raw HTML webclaw
┌──────────────────────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
│ <div class="ad-wrapper"> │ │ # Breaking: AI Breakthrough │
│ <nav class="global-nav"> │ │ │
│ <script>window.__NEXT_DATA__ │ │ Researchers achieved 94% │
│ ={...8KB of JSON...}</script> │ │ accuracy on cross-domain │
│ <div class="social-share"> │ │ reasoning benchmarks. │
│ <!-- 142,847 characters --> │ │ │
│ │ │ ## Key Findings │
│ 4,820 tokens │ │ 1,590 tokens │
└──────────────────────────────────┘ └──────────────────────────────────┘
What It Does
npx create-webclaw
- Detects installed AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity)
- Asks for your API key (optional — works locally without one)
- Writes the
npx @webclaw/mcpconfig into each detected tool
The server itself runs via @webclaw/mcp — npx fetches it on first launch and caches it. create-webclaw is just the convenience that writes that config for you.
Prefer to configure by hand?
Add this one block to your client's mcpServers config — it's identical to what create-webclaw writes:
{
"mcpServers": {
"webclaw": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@webclaw/mcp"]
}
}
}
MCP Tools
After setup, your AI agent has access to these 14 tools:
| Tool | What it does | API key needed? |
|---|---|---|
| scrape | Extract content from any URL | No |
| crawl | Recursively crawl a website | No |
| search | Web search + parallel scrape | Yes (Serper) |
| map | Discover URLs from sitemaps | No |
| batch | Extract multiple URLs in parallel | No |
| extract | LLM-powered structured extraction | Yes |
| summarize | Content summarization | Yes |
| diff | Track content changes | No |
| brand | Extract brand identity | No |
| research | Deep multi-page research | Yes |
| list_extractors | List the built-in vertical extractors | No |
| vertical_scrape | Scrape with a built-in vertical extractor | No |
| lead | Enrich a company URL into an outreach-ready lead (leadership + socials, tech, pricing, public emails) | Yes (webclaw) |
| lead_batch | Enrich up to 25 company URLs at once | Yes (webclaw) |
8 of the 14 tools work fully offline — no API key, no cloud, no tracking.
Supported Tools
| Tool | Config location |
|---|---|
| Claude Desktop | ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json |
| Claude Code | ~/.claude.json |
| Cursor | .cursor/mcp.json |
| Windsurf | ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json |
| VS Code (Continue) | ~/.continue/config.json |
| OpenCode | ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json (or ./opencode.json) |
| Codex CLI | ~/.codex/config.toml |
| Antigravity | ~/.config/antigravity/mcp.json (or ~/.antigravity/mcp.json) |
Sites That Work
webclaw gets through where default fetch() gets blocked:
Nike, Cloudflare, Bloomberg, Zillow, Indeed, Viagogo, Fansale, Wikipedia, Stripe, and 93 more. Tested on 102 sites with 99% success rate.
Alternative Install Methods
Homebrew
brew tap 0xMassi/webclaw && brew install webclaw
Docker
docker run --rm ghcr.io/0xmassi/webclaw https://example.com
Cargo
cargo install --git https://github.com/0xMassi/webclaw.git webclaw-cli
Prebuilt Binaries
Download from GitHub Releases for macOS (arm64, x86_64) and Linux (x86_64, aarch64).
Links
License
AGPL-3.0