Webscraping AI MCP Server vs Scrapling MCP Server

In-depth architectural comparison of the Webscraping AI MCP Server and Scrapling MCP Server MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Choose Webscraping AI MCP Server when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Search & Data Extraction domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: API Key required (Freemium).
• You have access to required keys: WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY.
• Primary tools included: JavaScript-rendered HTML retrieval, Question answering over page content, Instruction-based structured field extraction.

Explore Webscraping AI MCP Server Details

Choose Scrapling MCP Server when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Search & Data Extraction domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: Stealth and dynamic fetchers, Real-browser fetching, CSS selector-based parsing.

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Webscraping AI MCP Server webscraping-ai Search & Data Extraction	Scrapling MCP Server Search & Data Extraction
Summary	Interact with WebScraping.ai for web data extraction and scraping.	Web scraping with stealth HTTP, real browsers, and Cloudflare bypass. CSS selectors supported.
Category & Scope	Search & Data Extraction

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webscraping-ai-webscraping-ai-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "webscraping-ai-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY": "YOUR_WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scrapling-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scrapling"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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