Crawl4AI Model Context Protocol Server

This MCP Server helps you connect to your Crawl4AI docker API server.

Built with gkzhb/fastmcp-template: TypeScript MCP Server Template.

Quick Start

Prerequisites:

• Node.js 18+

To start Crawl4AI MCP server:

export CRAWL4AI_URL=http://your-server-ip:port
npx -y @gkzhb/crawl4ai-mcp

Notice that the command above is for Crawl4AI server v0.6.x.

For Crawl4AI server before v0.6.0, please use 0.0.x:

npx -y @gkzhb/[email protected]

This MCP server uses Streamable HTTP. And the default Streamable HTTP URL is http://localhost:8585/mcp. SSE is also supported and the SSE HTTP URL is http://localhost:8585/sse.

To customize MCP server, here are the shell environment variables:

| Variable | If Optional | Description | | :------------------: | :----------: | --------------------------------------------------------------- | | CRAWL4AI_URL | Required | Crawl4AI docker API server URL, eg. http://localhost:11545 | | CRAWL4AI_API_TOKEN | Optional | If Crawl4AI server enables authentication, you need to use this | | SERVER_PORT | Optional | MCP server port, default value is 8585 |

This MCP also supports Browserless to crawl web page since v0.2.1

See env.ts for Browserless environment variables:

• BROWSERLESS_URL
• BROWSERLESS_TOKEN
• BROWSERLESS_BLOCK_ADS
• BROWSERLESS_STEALTH_MODE