URLpipe

dev.urlpipePublished by urlpipe.devOfficial publisherv1.4.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

Read any page with its JavaScript run: Markdown, screenshots, metadata, console errors, Lighthouse.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Hosted URLpipe server that renders public pages in real Chrome so an assistant can read them as Markdown, screenshots, PDFs, metadata or custom data.

What you can do
  • Fetch rendered pages: main content as Markdown, post-JavaScript HTML, full-page screenshots and PDFs
  • Inspect pages: metadata and social tags, detected technologies, console errors and warnings, Lighthouse scores and Core Web Vitals
  • Extract structured data into a schema you define, plus keyword and summary operations
  • Run several operations in one page visit, then retrieve past results and request history
  • Check projects, plan limits and per-operation credit costs
When to use it
Useful when an assistant must read or inspect JavaScript-heavy public pages that a plain HTTP fetch returns as an empty shell, or when it needs screenshots, PDFs, audits or schema-shaped extraction rather than raw HTML.
Requirements
Remote streamable HTTP endpoint at urlpipe.dev; nothing to install. A URLpipe account and an organization token sent as an Authorization bearer header, created under Organization → MCP access. Claude Desktop without custom header support needs the mcp-remote bridge and Node.js. Credits are consumed per operation, with 1,000 free monthly.
Before you install
The token is shown once and grants access to the organization's projects and credits; it can be scoped read-only or limited to one project. Fetching operations spend credits, and prices vary widely per operation, so check usage before expensive runs. Pages are fetched by URLpipe's own servers and processed in the EU, and results are stored for 30 days.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open URLpipe in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Connect Authorization token credentials. They are stored privately and never shown on public pages.
  3. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/dev.urlpipe%2Fmcp/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "urlpipe": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://urlpipe.dev/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

README

[URLpipe]

URLpipe MCP server

Give your agent a browser that runs the page's JavaScript before it reads it.
Website · Docs · Pricing

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A plain fetch tool does an HTTP GET. On a site that builds itself in the browser — React, Vue, most docs sites and dashboards — that returns an empty shell, and the agent either says it can't read the page or guesses what was on it.

URLpipe loads every page in real Chrome first, then hands your agent what it asked for: the page as Markdown, a screenshot it can look at, a PDF, its metadata, data in a schema you define, its console errors or a Lighthouse audit.

  • Hosted. Streamable HTTP at https://urlpipe.dev/mcp. Nothing to install or run.
  • One bearer token. Can be read-only, limited to one project, or set to expire.
  • 17 tools. Every API operation, plus results, request history, projects and usage.
  • Same credits as the HTTP API. 1,000 free every month, no card. Cached results cost nothing.
  • Processed in the EU. Fetching, rendering and storage happen in Europe.

This repository holds the server's registry entry (server.json) and the setup for each client. The server itself runs at urlpipe.dev.

Get a token

  1. Sign up and confirm your email address.
  2. In the dashboard, open Organization → MCP access and create a token. Choose Fetch pages and read results for an agent that works normally, or Read past results only for one that must never spend credits.
  3. Copy it — it is shown once.

Every client sends it as Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN.

Connect your client

Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http urlpipe https://urlpipe.dev/mcp \  --scope user \  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

Or share it with your team in .mcp.json, each person setting their own URLPIPE_TOKEN:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "urlpipe": {      "type": "http",      "url": "https://urlpipe.dev/mcp",      "headers": {        "Authorization": "Bearer ${URLPIPE_TOKEN}"      }    }  }}

Claude Desktop

Where your organization has request headers in Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector, add https://urlpipe.dev/mcp with No sign-in and an authorization header of Bearer YOUR_TOKEN. Otherwise use the open-source mcp-remote bridge in claude_desktop_config.json (needs Node.js):

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "urlpipe": {      "command": "npx",      "args": [        "-y",        "mcp-remote",        "https://urlpipe.dev/mcp",        "--header",        "Authorization:${URLPIPE_AUTH}",        "--transport",        "http-only"      ],      "env": {        "URLPIPE_AUTH": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"      }    }  }}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json, or .cursor/mcp.json in a project:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "urlpipe": {      "url": "https://urlpipe.dev/mcp",      "headers": {        "Authorization": "Bearer ${env:URLPIPE_TOKEN}"      }    }  }}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json — VS Code asks for the token once and stores it securely:

json
{  "inputs": [    {      "type": "promptString",      "id": "urlpipe-token",      "description": "URLpipe MCP token",      "password": true    }  ],  "servers": {    "urlpipe": {      "type": "http",      "url": "https://urlpipe.dev/mcp",      "headers": {        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:urlpipe-token}"      }    }  }}

Windsurf

mcp_config.json:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "urlpipe": {      "serverUrl": "https://urlpipe.dev/mcp",      "headers": {        "Authorization": "Bearer ${env:URLPIPE_TOKEN}"      }    }  }}

Cline

cline_mcp_settings.json:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "urlpipe": {      "type": "streamableHttp",      "url": "https://urlpipe.dev/mcp",      "headers": {        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"      },      "disabled": false,      "autoApprove": ["list_projects", "get_usage", "get_result"]    }  }}

Zed

settings.json:

json
{  "context_servers": {    "urlpipe": {      "url": "https://urlpipe.dev/mcp",      "headers": {        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"      }    }  }}

From a directory

URLpipe is listed on Smithery, Glama and cursor.directory (as a Cursor plugin), and in the official MCP Registry as dev.urlpipe/mcp. On Smithery, paste your token as it is — the server accepts it with or without the Bearer prefix.

Step-by-step pages for each client, with a first prompt to try and troubleshooting, are at urlpipe.dev/integrations.

Tools

ToolWhat it returnsCredits
list_projectsThe projects the token can reach. Start here: every fetching tool takes a project_id.0
get_usageWhat the plan allows, what is left this period, and what each operation costs.0
fetch_markdownThe page's main content as clean Markdown, after its JavaScript ran. The one to use for reading.1
fetch_htmlThe rendered DOM — what a browser sees, not the shell curl gets.1
capture_screenshotA full-page screenshot, returned as an image the model can look at. Viewport, device scale, dark mode, one element by selector, PNG/JPEG/WebP.1
capture_pdfThe whole rendered page as a PDF, with its web fonts and lazy-loaded images in. Paper size, orientation, margins, scale, the print or on-screen stylesheet.1
capture_console_errorsconsole.error and console.warn during load, uncaught exceptions and unhandled promise rejections.1
run_lighthouse_auditA real Lighthouse audit: performance, accessibility, best practices, SEO and Core Web Vitals.2
extract_metadataEverything the page declares about itself — Open Graph, Twitter cards, JSON-LD, meta tags — in one object with the same keys for every page: title, authors, dates, share image, icons, feeds and more.1
detect_technologiesWhat the site is built with — CMS, frameworks, analytics, CDN, web server — each with its version, a confidence and the signals that gave it away.1
extract_keywordsThe 5–15 terms that best represent the page, ranked by a language model.15
summarize_pageA short Markdown summary of the page's main content.17
extract_dataData from the page in a schema you define: name the fields and get back exactly those keys, null where the page gives no value. Product details, prices, contact data, lists of items.24
scrape_urlSeveral of the above from one page visit. Each operation is billed as usual.sum
get_resultThe result of an earlier request, by its token.0
list_requestsA project's recent requests, newest first.0
get_requestEverything about one past request except its result: timings, cache, webhook delivery.0

Async is the default, as it is over HTTP: a fetching tool returns a token straight away and get_result collects the result. Pass sync: true to wait for it instead. Most agents work this out from the tool descriptions; saying "use sync: true" in the prompt saves a round trip.

A repeated request is free. Results are kept for 30 days and reused while they are fresher than max_age (7 days by default).

Prompts and resources

Clients that show MCP prompts (often as slash commands) get three ready-made ones:

PromptArgumentsWhat it does
read_pageurl, question (optional)Reads the page as Markdown and answers the question, or summarises the page.
audit_pageurl, device (optional: mobile or desktop)A health report: Lighthouse scores, Core Web Vitals and console errors.
compare_pagesurl_a, url_b, focus (optional)Two pages side by side: what each says and how each presents itself.

The resource urlpipe://pricing holds the plans and what each operation costs, so an agent can check a price before it spends credits.

initialize, tools/list, prompts/list and resources/list answer without a token, so you can see all of this straight from the server:

bash
curl -s https://urlpipe.dev/mcp \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

A first prompt

text
Using urlpipe with sync: true, read https://news.ycombinator.com as Markdown and listthe five top stories with their links. Then take a screenshot of the first story's pageand tell me what the page looks like.

What it doesn't do

URLpipe answers questions about one URL at a time. It doesn't crawl whole sites, discover URLs, or reach localhost and private addresses — it fetches public pages from its own servers. It follows each site's robots.txt by default.

Links

Licensed under MIT: the configuration and documentation in this repository. The URLpipe service is covered by its terms.

Source: README.md at commit 60ceb60

Tools

17

list_projects

List projects

The projects this token can reach, each with how many requests it has made in the last 30 days and where its results are delivered. Start here: every other tool takes a project_id from this list. A project is the unit a request is billed and recorded against — credits themselves belong to the organization, so which project you pick does not change what a call costs.

Takes no parameters.

get_usage

Check usage and prices

What the organization's plan allows, how much of it is left this period, and what each operation costs. Worth reading before a run of expensive calls: the operations differ by seventeen times in price, so the difference between fetch_markdown and summarize_page over a hundred pages is 100 credits against 1,700. It is also how to read a refusal — a call that comes back with quota_exceeded is telling you this number ran out.

Takes no parameters.

fetch_markdown

Read a page as Markdown

Exposes POST /markdown. Renders the page in headless Chrome and converts its main content to clean Markdown — headings, lists, links and code kept, navigation, sidebars and cookie banners dropped. Start here when you want to READ a page. It is the cheapest operation we sell (1 credit) and by far the most compact thing to put in front of a model: fetch_html returns the whole DOM, which is usually many times larger and says nothing extra about what the page means.

Parametersurlrequiredsynclabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredresidentialpage_optionsidempotency_key

fetch_html

Get the rendered HTML

Exposes POST /html. Returns the page's HTML after JavaScript has run and redirects have been followed — the DOM a real browser sees, not the empty shell curl returns. 1 credit. Use it when you need the markup itself: a specific attribute, a script tag, a structured-data block. If you want to read the page's content, fetch_markdown costs the same and returns a fraction of the text.

Parametersurlrequiredsynclabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredresidentialpage_optionsidempotency_key

capture_screenshot

Take a screenshot

Exposes POST /screenshot. Captures the whole rendered page as a PNG — JavaScript executed, web fonts and images included, exactly as a browser would draw it. 1 credit, whichever options you use. Use it to see a page rather than read it: layout, visual regressions, link previews, or checking what an anti-bot page actually showed us. screenshot_options size it (viewport, scale, one element, the fold only), encode it (png, jpeg or webp) and restyle it (dark mode, hidden elements, your own CSS); page_options wait for the page and take ads and cookie banners out of it.

Parametersurlrequiredsynclabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredresidentialpage_optionsidempotency_keyscreenshot_options

capture_pdf

Save a page as PDF

Exposes POST /pdf. Prints the whole rendered page to a PDF — JavaScript executed, web fonts and lazy-loaded images included, its headings as bookmarks. 1 credit, whichever options you use. Use it to archive or hand on a page as a document: a receipt, an article, a report, terms as they stood today. pdf_options choose the paper, the orientation, the margins and the scale, whether backgrounds print, whether the page's print stylesheet or its on-screen look is used, and whether to cut it into sheets at all; page_options wait for the page and take ads and cookie banners out of it.

Parametersurlrequiredsynclabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredpdf_optionsresidentialpage_optionsidempotency_key

capture_console_errors

Capture console errors

Exposes POST /console. Loads the page in headless Chrome and returns what it reported through console.error and console.warn during load, plus uncaught exceptions and unhandled promise rejections (not console.log). 1 credit. What you would open DevTools for: broken third-party scripts and client-side errors you cannot reproduce locally.

Parametersurlrequiredsynclabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredresidentialpage_optionsidempotency_key

run_lighthouse_audit

Run a Lighthouse audit

Exposes POST /lighthouse. Runs a real Google Lighthouse audit against the live page: performance, accessibility, best-practices and SEO scores plus Core Web Vitals. 2 credits — dearer than a page fetch because the audit runs in its own limited lane, so it also takes longer than anything else here. It fetches the page itself rather than sharing a visit, so asking for it inside scrape_url costs two page visits, not one.

Parametersurlrequiredsyncdevicelabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredresidentialinclude_auditsidempotency_key

extract_metadata

Extract page metadata

Exposes POST /meta. Reads everything a page declares about itself — Open Graph, Twitter cards, meta tags, JSON-LD, microdata and links — into one object with the same keys on every page: title, description, site name, kind of page, language, authors, publication and update dates, share image and video, favicon and icons, logo, feeds, keywords, canonical URL, robots directives, hreflang alternates, oEmbed endpoint and structured-data types, plus the raw og: and twitter: tags. A value the page does not declare is null or an empty list. Values injected by JavaScript are included, because the page is rendered first. 1 credit.

Parametersurlrequiredsynclabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredresidentialpage_optionsidempotency_key

detect_technologies

Detect a page's technologies

Exposes POST /technologies. Detects what a page is built with — CMS, e-commerce platform, JavaScript frameworks and libraries, analytics and tag managers, advertising and marketing tools, CDN, web server, programming language, payment providers, chat widgets, consent managers and more — from an open database of over 7,000 fingerprints. Each technology comes with its version when the page gives it away, a confidence from 0 to 100, its categories, its website and CPE, and which signals gave it away (html, meta tags, headers, cookies, JavaScript globals, DOM, script URLs and contents, stylesheets, DNS records, robots.txt). The page is rendered first, so technologies loaded by JavaScript are found too. 1 credit.

Parametersurlrequiredsynclabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredresidentialpage_optionsidempotency_key

extract_keywords

Extract keywords

Exposes POST /keywords. Returns the 5–15 terms and phrases that best represent the page, ordered by relevance — ranked by a language model, not by raw frequency. 15 credits. As with summarize_page: if you are going to reason over the result yourself, fetch_markdown costs 1 credit and gives you everything.

Parametersurlrequiredsynclabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredresidentialpage_optionsidempotency_key

summarize_page

Summarize a page

Exposes POST /summarize. Returns a concise Markdown summary of the page's main content, with the navigation, ads and boilerplate left out. The most expensive operation we sell, at 17 credits, because it runs a language model over the page. If YOU are the model that will read it, fetch_markdown gives you the whole page for 1 credit and you can summarize it yourself — this tool is for when the summary is the artefact being produced, not a step on the way to one.

Parametersurlrequiredsynclabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredresidentialpage_optionsidempotency_key

extract_data

Extract structured data with your own schema

Exposes POST /extract. Reads the page and fills an object YOU define: pass `fields`, each with a name, a type and a description of what to take from the page, and get back exactly those keys in that order. Anything the page does not give comes back null — values are never guessed. Types: string, number, integer, boolean, date, datetime, url, email, object (with its own fields) and array (with items). Use it for product details, prices, contact data, job listings, event dates, lists of items with several attributes each. 24 credits: it reads the whole page with an AI model, so prefer extract_metadata when the standard metadata is all you need.

Parametersurlrequiredsyncfieldsrequiredlabelsmax_agereport_toproject_idrequiredresidentialinstructionspage_optionsidempotency_key

scrape_url

Several results from one page visit

Exposes POST /scrape. Runs any subset of the other operations in one request, served from a single page visit where possible. Each operation is billed and stored exactly as the individual call would be, so this is not a discount — with one exception, and it is the reason to use it: a residential exit is charged per page VISIT, so several results off one visit pay the surcharge once. Answers with one object keyed by operation, each entry carrying its own success and result, so a partial failure still returns everything that worked. lighthouse does not share the visit — it runs its own audit on its own engine — so including it means two page fetches, and two surcharges when residential is on. So does a screenshot whose screenshot_options set viewport_width, viewport_height, device_scale_factor, dark_mode or block_ads: those change how the page loads, so the screenshot gets a visit of its own.

Parametersurlrequiredsyncdevicefieldslabelsmax_agereport_tooperationsrequiredproject_idrequiredpdf_optionsresidentialinstructions+4 more

get_result

Get a result

Exposes GET /result/:token. Returns the result of a past request, in the same form the call that made it would have returned — Markdown as Markdown, a structured operation as its object, a screenshot as an image, a PDF as an embedded application/pdf resource, a scrape as its combined object. This is how an async call is collected: any tool called without sync: true answers with a token, and this turns that token into the result. It also re-reads a result somebody already paid for, which is free — results are kept for 30 days. A request that has not finished yet answers {"status": "processing"}; call again in a moment.

Parameterstokenrequiredproject_idrequired

list_requests

List past requests

A project's recent requests, newest first, with each one's token. Look here before fetching a page: if somebody already pulled it, passing that token to get_result returns the same result for nothing. A /scrape appears as one entry — its per-operation children are internal, and the scrape's own token returns all of them. Pass labels to see only the requests made with them — every key given must match its value exactly.

Parametersurllimitlabelsoffsetoperationproject_idrequired

get_request

Inspect a past request

Everything about one past request except its result: what was asked for, how long each stage took, whether it came from the store, and how the webhook delivery went. This is the metadata; get_result returns the page itself. Reach for this one when a call did not do what you expected — it says whether the result was reused, why an analysis failed, and whether the delivery to the project's endpoint succeeded.

Parameterstokenrequiredproject_idrequired

Version history

4
  1. v1.4.0LatestOct 12, 2026
  2. v1.3.0Oct 12, 2026
  3. v1.2.0Sep 25, 2026
  4. v1.0.0Sep 25, 2026

Score

100% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts
  • License10 pts