MCP-Crawl4AI

Getting Started

Install and use MCP-Crawl4AI with the canonical tool surface.

MCP-Crawl4AI

MCP-Crawl4AI is a Model Context Protocol server that gives AI systems access to the live web through Crawl4AI and FastMCP.

Highlights

  • Canonical scrape and crawl tools
  • Session lifecycle support with close_session
  • Artifact retrieval with get_artifact
  • Stdio and HTTP transports
  • Markdown, HTML, raw HTML, and text outputs

Install

pip

pip install mcp-crawl4ai
mcp-crawl4ai --setup

uv

uv add mcp-crawl4ai
mcp-crawl4ai --setup

Docker

docker build -t mcp-crawl4ai .
docker run -p 8000:8000 mcp-crawl4ai

Run

stdio

mcp-crawl4ai

HTTP

mcp-crawl4ai --transport http --port 8000

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