About Deepcrawl
Deepcrawl is an MCP server for developers and agents that scrapes pages, maps and crawls sites, and saves page clones with assets locally. It returns clean Markdown and can use Playwright for JavaScript rendering when installed.
Key features
- 01Scrape pages to Markdown
- 02Clone pages with site assets
- 03Crawl internal links
- 04Discover URLs from sitemaps
- 05Optional Playwright rendering
Use cases
- 01Extract a page’s main content
- 02Save a local copy of a web page
- 03Collect site pages for content analysis
- 04Map a site before crawling
MCP support
Deepcrawl exposes scraping, cloning, crawling, and URL-mapping tools to MCP clients.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project README
Clone, scrape and crawl any website. Free Firecrawl alternative. No API keys, no rate limits, no subscription.
Quick Start
Cursor (one-click): Click the "Install in Cursor" button above.
Manual MCP config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"deepcrawl-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "deepcrawl-mcp@latest"]
}
}
}
CLI:
npx deepcrawl-mcp@latest
Tools
deepcrawl_scrape
Scrape a single page and return clean markdown. Extracts title, description, links, images, and metadata. Strips navigation, footer, ads, and tracking.
"Scrape https://example.com and give me the main content"
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
url | required | Page URL to scrape |
mainContentOnly | true | Extract only main content (skip nav/footer) |
includeLinks | true | Include discovered links |
includeImages | true | Include image URLs |
deepcrawl_clone
Clone a full page with all assets: HTML, CSS, JS, images, fonts, favicons. Downloads everything into a local folder, rewrites URLs to relative paths. Open index.html in a browser and it works.
"Clone https://competitor.com into a local folder"
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
url | required | Page URL to clone |
outputDir | ~/deepcrawl-clones/<domain> | Output folder |
depth | 0 | Link depth: 0 = single page, 1+ = follow links |
deepcrawl_crawl
Crawl an entire site following internal links. Returns every page as clean markdown. Great for content analysis, SEO audit, or feeding a RAG pipeline.
"Crawl https://docs.example.com and return all pages as markdown"
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
url | required | Starting URL |
maxPages | 20 | Max pages to crawl (max: 100) |
includeImages | false | Include image URLs per page |
deepcrawl_map
Discover all URLs from a site via sitemap.xml parsing and homepage link crawling. Run this before a crawl to see the site's scope.
"Map all pages on https://example.com"
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
url | required | Site URL |
maxUrls | 200 | Max URLs to discover |
vs Firecrawl
| deepcrawl | Firecrawl | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $19+/mo |
| API key | None | Required |
| Rate limits | None | Yes |
| Scrape to markdown | Yes | Yes |
| Full site crawl | Yes | Yes |
| Site map | Yes | Yes |
| Clone with assets | Yes | No |
| JS rendering | Yes (via Playwright) | Yes |
| Anti-bot bypass | Partial (UA rotation, headers, delays) | Yes |
deepcrawl handles static sites out of the box. For JS-heavy SPAs (React, Next.js, SvelteKit), install Playwright for full rendering:
npm install -g playwright
npx playwright install chromium
Once installed, deepcrawl auto-detects Playwright and enables JS rendering. Use jsRender: true on any tool to activate it. All tools also include UA rotation, realistic browser headers, and random delays to avoid basic bot detection.
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License
MIT
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