Web Validator by DigestSEO

An MCP server for HTML and CSS validation, technical SEO and accessibility checks, JSON-LD syntax validation, broken-link checks, and responsive screenshots. It is part of the DigestSEO suite of open-source SEO tools.

• Product: digestseo.com/validator-mcp
• Documentation: this README
• Support: digestseo.com/support
• Privacy: digestseo.com/privacy

Choose the right surface

This repository contains two deliberately separate MCP surfaces:

Local installation:

npx -y mcp-web-validator

Hosted endpoint:

https://web-validator-mcp.digestseo.com/mcp

Requirements

• Node.js 22.12.0 or newer
• An MCP client that supports stdio, or a client that supports Streamable HTTP for the hosted endpoint

Puppeteer may download a compatible browser during npm installation. The browser is used only by the local screenshot.capture tool.

Local server tools

The npm package exposes these exact runtime tool names:

Hosted app tools

The hosted app exposes eight tools:

audit_public_webpage follows at most three validated redirects, accepts a bounded text/html response, and records the final URL. It does not crawl additional pages, execute JavaScript, authenticate, or fetch linked stylesheets and assets. audit_public_site first locks the final public origin, reads bounded same-origin robots.txt and XML sitemap documents, then audits at most eight eligible sitemap pages in one call. It never follows HTML links, subdomains, external sitemap entries, private/reserved destinations, custom ports, or cross-origin redirects; use page_offset when the response says more eligible pages remain. The fetched HTML is sent to https://html5.validator.nu/, the same external Nu HTML Checker used by validate_html and the report tool. CSS parsing, SEO analysis, and JSON-LD parsing run inside the DigestSEO Worker. Optional link checks make capped HEAD requests, with a bounded GET fallback where necessary, to eligible public HTTP(S) URLs; link redirects are reported but not followed. The site tool intentionally does not perform site-wide link checking. The hosted app does not retain tool inputs, fetched HTML, or results.

Privacy and safe use

Only validate files, markup, and public webpages that you own or are authorized to inspect. Public page URLs can contain sensitive query values, so remove tokens and private identifiers before submitting them. Do not submit passwords, API keys, access tokens, payment data, health data, private source code, or other sensitive personal data.

The local server runs with the same operating-system permissions as its MCP client. Review tool inputs before approving file access, outbound validation, link checking, or screenshot creation. The hosted app has no access to your local filesystem.

See the published privacy policy for data-handling details and SECURITY.md for private vulnerability reporting.

Configure a local client

Claude Desktop

Add the server to claude_desktop_config.json:

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-web-validator": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-web-validator"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop after saving the configuration.

Cursor and compatible clients

Create a command/stdio MCP server with:

npx -y mcp-web-validator

This repository also includes a Cursor Marketplace plugin manifest. After the plugin is published, install Web Validator by DigestSEO from Cursor's Marketplace or add the repository from Cursor's plugin UI. The plugin bundles the same local stdio server and does not require API keys or environment variables.

Development

Clone the repository and install the locked dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/AKzar1el/mcp-web-validator.git
cd mcp-web-validator
npm ci

Run the local quality gates:

npm run check
npm test
npm run build
npm pack --dry-run

Run the local stdio server:

npm start

Validate the hosted Worker separately:

cd chatgpt-plugin
npm ci
npm run check
npm test
npm run deploy:dry-run

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution expectations. Deployment and marketplace-review notes live in chatgpt-plugin/SUBMISSION.md. For agent-assisted installation, see llms-install.md.

Ecosystem

License

Licensed under the MIT License.