🌐 AnySite MCP Server

Agent-First Web Scraping Infrastructure via Model Context Protocol

Connect your AI agents to real-time data from LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, and any website through a single MCP server.

🚀 Quick Start • 📖 Documentation • 🐦 Twitter

🎯 What is AnySite MCP Server?

AnySite MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementation that gives AI agents direct access to web data through platform-specific APIs. Unlike traditional web scrapers, AnySite provides:

• 🔒 OAuth Authentication - Secure, one-click connection for Claude Desktop and other MCP clients
• 🌐 Multi-Platform Support - LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, and custom web parsing
• 🤖 Agent-First Design - Built specifically for AI agents with structured data formats
• 🔄 Self-Healing APIs - Auto-recovery from platform changes and rate limits
• ⚡ Real-Time Data - Fresh data extraction without stale caches

Perfect for: AI research, lead generation, market intelligence, content monitoring, competitive analysis

⚡ Key Features

🎪 Supported Platforms

| Platform | Search | Profiles | Posts | Comments | DMs | Analytics | |----------|--------|----------|-------|----------|-----|-----------| | LinkedIn | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Instagram | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Reddit | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ⚠️ | | Twitter/X | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ | ❌ | ⚠️ | | Any Website | ✅ | - | - | - | - | - |

🛠️ Core Capabilities

• Advanced Search & Filtering - Find people by title, company, location, education, skills
• Bulk Data Extraction - Extract thousands of profiles, posts, or comments in one request
• Network Analysis - Map connections, followers, engagement patterns
• Content Monitoring - Track posts, comments, reactions in real-time
• Account Management - Send messages, connection requests, post comments (LinkedIn)
• Smart Web Parsing - Extract structured data from any website using CSS selectors

🔐 Enterprise-Grade Features

• Rate Limit Management - Automatic backoff and retry with exponential delays
• Proxy Rotation - Built-in proxy support for high-volume requests
• Error Recovery - Self-healing mechanisms for platform changes
• Usage Analytics - Track API consumption and costs
• Team Management - Multi-user accounts with role-based access

🚀 Quick Start

Option 1: Remote MCP with OAuth (Recommended)

Perfect for Claude Desktop, Cline, Cursor, Windsurf, and other MCP clients that support OAuth.

Step 1: Get Your OAuth URL

1. Sign up at app.anysite.io (100 free credits included)
2. Navigate to MCP Server Integration
3. Copy your OAuth URL: https://api.anysite.io/mcp/sse

Step 2: Add to Your MCP Client

1. Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Connectors
2. Click Add Custom Connector
3. Fill in:
   • Name: AnySite MCP
   • OAuth URL: https://api.anysite.io/mcp/sse
4. Click Add → Connect → Allow Access

📖 Detailed Claude Desktop Setup Guide

Add to your MCP configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anysite": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@anysite/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "ANYSITE_OAUTH_URL": "https://api.anysite.io/mcp/sse"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration file locations:

• Cline: .cline/mcp_settings.json
• Cursor: .cursor/mcp_config.json
• Windsurf: .windsurf/mcp_config.json

Step 3: Verify Connection

Ask your AI agent:

What MCP tools do you have access to?

Expected response should include:

• search_linkedin_users
• get_linkedin_profile
• get_instagram_user
• search_reddit_posts
• google_search
• parse_webpage
• ... and 50+ more tools

Option 2: Local MCP Server (For Development)

Perfect for testing, development, custom integrations.

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/anysiteio/anysite-mcp-server.git
cd anysite-mcp-server

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

Configuration

Create .env file:

ANYSITE_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_access_token
ANYSITE_ACCOUNT_ID=your_account_id

Get your credentials from app.anysite.io

Run Server

npm start

Connect to MCP Client

Add to your MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anysite-local": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/anysite-mcp-server/build/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "ANYSITE_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_token",
        "ANYSITE_ACCOUNT_ID": "your_account_id"
      }
    }
  }
}

🎮 Usage Examples

LinkedIn: Find Decision Makers

Find me 10 CTOs at AI companies in San Francisco

The MCP server will:

1. Search LinkedIn users with title="CTO", company_keywords="AI", location="San Francisco"
2. Return structured profiles with name, headline, company, location
3. Provide direct LinkedIn URLs for each profile

Instagram: Monitor Brand Mentions

Get the latest 20 Instagram posts mentioning @yourbrand

Reddit: Analyze Discussions

Search Reddit for posts about "LLM agents" in the last week,
sorted by top engagement

Multi-Platform Research

1. Find the LinkedIn profile of John Doe at Company X
2. Get his recent posts and engagement metrics
3. Find his Twitter profile and latest tweets
4. Cross-reference with Instagram presence

📖 Documentation

📚 Full Documentation

• AnySite MCP Server Docs
• API Reference
• All Available Tools

🔧 Tool Categories (57 Total)

Search & Discovery (7 tools)

• search_linkedin_users - Advanced user search with 10+ filters
• linkedin_sn_search_users - Sales Navigator advanced search
• get_linkedin_email_user - Find users by email address
• get_linkedin_user_email_db - Batch email lookup (up to 10 profiles)
• get_linkedin_google_company - Find companies via Google search
• get_linkedin_company - Company details lookup
• search_linkedin_posts - Search posts by keywords, author, date

Profile & Data (7 tools)

• get_linkedin_profile - Full profile with experience, education, skills
• get_linkedin_user_posts - User's post history
• get_linkedin_user_reactions - Posts user reacted to
• get_linkedin_user_comments - User's comment history
• get_linkedin_user_connections - Network connections
• get_linkedin_user_endorsers - Skill endorsers
• get_linkedin_user_certificates - User certificates

Company Intelligence (4 tools)

• get_linkedin_company_employees - Employee list with filters
• get_linkedin_company_posts - Company updates
• get_linkedin_post_reposts - Reshare analysis
• get_linkedin_conversations - Conversation history

Engagement (4 tools)

• get_linkedin_post_comments - Comment threads
• get_linkedin_post_reactions - Who reacted and how
• get_linkedin_post_reposts - Reshare analysis

Account Management (4 tools) - Requires ACCOUNT_ID

• get_linkedin_management_me - Get own profile
• send_linkedin_chat_message - Send DMs
• get_linkedin_chat_messages - Retrieve conversations
• send_linkedin_connection - Send connection requests
• send_linkedin_post_comment - Comment on posts
• send_linkedin_post - Create posts

• get_instagram_user - Profile info, followers, posts count
• get_instagram_user_posts - Post history with media
• get_instagram_user_reels - Reels/videos
• get_instagram_user_friendships - Followers/following lists
• get_instagram_post - Post details with metrics
• get_instagram_post_comments - Comment threads
• get_instagram_post_likes - Who liked the post
• search_instagram_posts - Hashtag and keyword search

• get_twitter_user - Profile details
• search_twitter_users - Find users
• get_twitter_user_posts - Tweet history
• search_twitter_posts - Advanced tweet search with 15+ filters
• get_twitter_post - Tweet details

• search_reddit_posts - Search with sort, time, subreddit filters
• get_reddit_post - Post details with score, comments
• get_reddit_post_comments - Comment trees with nested replies

• parse_webpage - Extract content with 14+ CSS selector options
• get_sitemap - Parse website sitemaps

• google_search - Google search with clean results
• search - ChatGPT Deep Research optimized search
• fetch - ChatGPT Deep Research optimized profile fetch

🤝 Integrations

AnySite MCP Server works with any MCP-compatible client:

AI Assistants

• ✅ Claude Desktop - Native OAuth support
• ✅ Cline - MCP configuration
• ✅ Cursor - Custom MCP server
• ✅ Windsurf - MCP integration
• ✅ Any MCP Client - Standard protocol

Development Tools

• 🔧 n8n - AnySite n8n nodes
• 🔧 LangChain - Custom tool integration
• 🔧 AutoGen - Agent tool registration
• 🔧 REST API - Direct API access

Comparison: Remote vs Local

| Feature | Remote MCP (OAuth) | Local MCP | |---------|-------------------|-----------| | Setup Time | < 2 minutes | ~10 minutes | | Authentication | OAuth (secure, one-click) | API keys in config | | Updates | Automatic | Manual git pull | | Best For | Production, end-users | Development, testing | | Credentials | Managed by AnySite | Self-managed | | Revocation | One-click in dashboard | Manual removal | | MCP Clients | Claude Desktop, Cline, etc. | Any MCP client |

Recommendation: Use Remote MCP for production and Local MCP for development/testing.

🏗️ Architecture

┌─────────────────┐
│   MCP Client    │ (Claude Desktop, Cline, etc.)
│   (AI Agent)    │
└────────┬────────┘
         │ MCP Protocol
         │
┌────────▼────────┐
│  AnySite MCP    │
│     Server      │
└────────┬────────┘
         │ REST API
         │
┌────────▼────────┐
│  AnySite API    │ ← OAuth Authentication
│   Platform      │ ← Rate Limiting
└────────┬────────┘ ← Proxy Rotation
         │
    ┌────┴────┬────────┬─────────┬──────────┐
    ▼         ▼        ▼         ▼          ▼
LinkedIn  Instagram  Reddit  Twitter  Any Website

Key Components:

• MCP Protocol Layer - Standardized tool interface for AI agents
• API Abstraction - Platform-specific API adapters with error handling
• Authentication - OAuth 2.0 for secure credential management
• Self-Healing - Auto-retry and fallback mechanisms
• Rate Limiting - Smart backoff to prevent API bans

💡 Use Cases

🎯 Lead Generation & Sales

• Find decision makers by title, company, location
• Enrich CRM data with LinkedIn profiles
• Monitor competitor hiring and expansion

📊 Market Intelligence

• Track brand mentions across platforms
• Analyze competitor social media strategy
• Monitor industry trends and discussions

🔍 Research & Analytics

• Collect datasets for AI training
• Social network analysis
• Content performance tracking

🤖 AI Agent Workflows

• Multi-platform data correlation
• Automated outreach campaigns
• Cross-platform identity resolution

🛠️ Development

Building from Source

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/anysiteio/anysite-mcp-server.git
cd anysite-mcp-server

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build TypeScript
npm run build

# Run in development mode
npm run dev

# Run tests
npm test

Project Structure

anysite-mcp-server/
├── src/                      # Source code
│   ├── index.ts              # MCP server entry point (Smithery runtime)
│   ├── server.ts             # Server implementation (Traditional MCP)
│   └── types.ts              # TypeScript type definitions
├── build/                    # Compiled JavaScript
│   ├── index.js              # Main entry point
│   ├── server.js             # Server executable
│   ├── types.js              # Type definitions
│   ├── remote-server.js      # Remote server support
│   ├── streamable-server.js  # Streaming support
│   └── smithery.js           # Smithery integration
├── .claude/                  # Claude Code settings
│   └── settings.local.json
├── .cursor/                  # Cursor IDE settings
│   └── rules/
├── .smithery/                # Smithery CLI files
│   └── index.cjs
├── package.json              # npm package configuration
├── package-lock.json
├── tsconfig.json             # TypeScript configuration
├── smithery.yaml             # Smithery config
├── glama.json                # Glama integration
├── .env                      # Environment variables (local)
├── .npmrc                    # npm configuration
├── .gitignore
├── README.md                 # Documentation
├── CLAUDE.md                 # Claude Code instructions
├── LICENSE.md                # MIT License
└── LICENSE

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Areas we need help with:

• 📝 Documentation improvements
• 🐛 Bug fixes and testing
• ✨ New platform integrations
• 🌍 Translations

📊 Pricing & Limits

Free Tier

• ✅ 100 free credits on signup
• ✅ All 57 tools available
• ✅ OAuth authentication
• ⚠️ Rate limits apply

Pro Plans

• 🚀 Higher rate limits
• 🚀 Priority support
• 🚀 Dedicated proxies
• 🚀 Team collaboration

See pricing details

🔒 Security & Privacy

• OAuth 2.0 - Industry-standard authentication
• No Credential Storage - Your API keys stay with AnySite
• Encrypted Transport - All data transmitted over HTTPS
• GDPR Compliant - Data processing follows EU regulations
• Revocable Access - One-click disconnect in dashboard

⚠️ Important: Always comply with platform terms of service and local regulations when scraping data.

💬 Community & Support

• 📖 Documentation
• 💬 Discord Community - Ask questions, share workflows
• 🐦 Twitter - Latest updates
• 📧 Email Support
• 🐛 GitHub Issues

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

🙏 Acknowledgments

Built with:

• Model Context Protocol by Anthropic
• TypeScript
• Node.js

Special thanks to the MCP community for feedback and contributions.

⭐ Star us on GitHub if AnySite MCP Server helps your AI agents!

Made with ❤️ by the AnySite.io team

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