Oxylabs Web Scraping

📖 Overview

The Oxylabs MCP server provides a bridge between AI models and the web. It enables them to scrape any URL, render JavaScript-heavy pages, extract and format content for AI use, bypass anti-scraping measures, and access geo-restricted web data from 195+ countries.

🛠️ MCP Tools

Oxylabs MCP provides two sets of tools that can be used together or independently:

Oxylabs Web Scraper API Tools

1. universal_scraper: Uses Oxylabs Web Scraper API for general website scraping;
2. google_search_scraper: Uses Oxylabs Web Scraper API to extract results from Google Search;
3. amazon_search_scraper: Uses Oxylabs Web Scraper API to scrape Amazon search result pages;
4. amazon_product_scraper: Uses Oxylabs Web Scraper API to extract data from individual Amazon product pages.

Oxylabs AI Studio Tools

5. ai_scraper: Scrape content from any URL in JSON or Markdown format with AI-powered data extraction;
6. ai_crawler: Based on a prompt, crawls a website and collects data in Markdown or JSON format across multiple pages;
7. ai_browser_agent: Based on prompt, controls a browser and returns data in Markdown, JSON, HTML, or screenshot formats;
8. ai_search: Search the web for URLs and their contents with AI-powered content extraction.

✅ Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have at least one of the following:

• Oxylabs Web Scraper API Account: Obtain your username and password from Oxylabs (1-week free trial available);
• Oxylabs AI Studio API Key: Obtain your API key from Oxylabs AI Studio. (1000 credits free).

📦 Configuration

Environment variables

Oxylabs MCP server supports the following environment variables:

Based on provided credentials, the server will automatically expose the corresponding tools:

• If only OXYLABS_USERNAME and OXYLABS_PASSWORD are provided, the server will expose the Web Scraper API tools;
• If only OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY is provided, the server will expose the AI Studio tools;
• If both OXYLABS_USERNAME and OXYLABS_PASSWORD and OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY are provided, the server will expose all tools.

❗❗❗ Important note: if you don't have Web Scraper API or Oxylabs AI studio credentials, delete the corresponding environment variables placeholders. Leaving placeholder values will result in exposed tools that do not work.

Configure with uvx

• Install the uvx package manager:

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  # macOS and Linux
  curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
  

  OR:

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  # Windows
  powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"
  

• Use the following config:

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  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "oxylabs": {
        "command": "uvx",
        "args": ["oxylabs-mcp"],
        "env": {
          "OXYLABS_USERNAME": "OXYLABS_USERNAME",
          "OXYLABS_PASSWORD": "OXYLABS_PASSWORD",
          "OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY": "OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY"
        }
      }
    }
  }
  

Configure with uv

• Install the uv package manager:

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  # macOS and Linux
  curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
  

  OR:

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  # Windows
  powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"
  

• Use the following config:

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  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "oxylabs": {
        "command": "uv",
        "args": [
          "--directory",
          "/<Absolute-path-to-folder>/oxylabs-mcp",
          "run",
          "oxylabs-mcp"
        ],
        "env": {
          "OXYLABS_USERNAME": "OXYLABS_USERNAME",
          "OXYLABS_PASSWORD": "OXYLABS_PASSWORD",
          "OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY": "OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY"
        }
      }
    }
  }
  

Configure with Smithery Oauth2

• Go to https://smithery.ai/server/@oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp;
• Click Auto to install the Oxylabs MCP configuration for the respective client;
• OR use the following config:

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  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "oxylabs": {
        "url": "https://server.smithery.ai/@oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp/mcp"
      }
    }
  }

• Follow the instructions to authenticate Oxylabs MCP with Oauth2 flow

Configure with Smithery query parameters

In case your client does not support the Oauth2 authentication, you can pass the Oxylabs authentication parameters directly in url

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  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "oxylabs": {
        "url": "https://server.smithery.ai/@oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp/mcp?oxylabsUsername=OXYLABS_USERNAME&oxylabsPassword=OXYLABS_PASSWORD&oxylabsAiStudioApiKey=OXYLABS_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }

Manual Setup with Claude Desktop

Navigate to Claude → Settings → Developer → Edit Config and add one of the configurations above to the claude_desktop_config.json file.

Manual Setup with Cursor AI

Navigate to Cursor → Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP. Click Add new global MCP server and add one of the configurations above.

📝 Logging

Server provides additional information about the tool calls in notification/message events

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{
  "method": "notifications/message",
  "params": {
    "level": "info",
    "data": "Create job with params: {\"url\": \"https://ip.oxylabs.io\"}"
  }
}

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{
  "method": "notifications/message",
  "params": {
    "level": "info",
    "data": "Job info: job_id=7333113830223918081 job_status=done"
  }
}

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{
  "method": "notifications/message",
  "params": {
    "level": "error",
    "data": "Error: request to Oxylabs API failed"
  }
}

🛡️ License

Distributed under the MIT License – see LICENSE for details.

About Oxylabs

Established in 2015, Oxylabs is a market-leading web intelligence collection platform, driven by the highest business, ethics, and compliance standards, enabling companies worldwide to unlock data-driven insights.

✨ Key Features

• Extract data from any URL, including complex single-page applications
• Fully render dynamic websites using headless browser support
• Choose full JavaScript rendering, HTML-only, or none
• Emulate Mobile and Desktop viewports for realistic rendering

• Automatically clean and convert HTML to Markdown for improved readability
• Use automated parsers for popular targets like Google, Amazon, and more

• Bypass sophisticated bot protection systems with high success rate
• Reliably scrape even the most complex websites
• Get automatically rotating IPs from a proxy pool covering 195+ countries

• Set rendering and parsing options if needed
• Feed data directly into AI models or analytics tools
• Works on macOS, Windows, and Linux

• Comprehensive error handling and reporting
• Smart rate limiting and request management

Why Oxylabs MCP?  🕸️ ➜ 📦 ➜ 🤖

Imagine telling your LLM "Summarise the latest Hacker News discussion about GPT‑5" – and it simply answers.
MCP (Multi‑Client Proxy) makes that happen by doing the boring parts for you:

mcp-name: io.oxylabs/oxylabs-mcp