About Grabbit
Grabbit is a hosted screenshot service for AI agents that turns public URLs into hosted images without requiring a local headless browser. It supports full-page and JavaScript-heavy captures and handles cookie and consent banners.
Key features
- 01Create hosted screenshots from public URLs
- 02Capture full-page and JavaScript-heavy pages
- 03Handle cookie and consent banners
- 04Retrieve previous captures by ID
- 05Review recent captures and usage
Use cases
- 01Get an image of web page content
- 02Capture dynamically rendered pages
- 03Review a previously created screenshot
- 04Check account credits and recent usage
MCP support
Grabbit exposes screenshot, capture-history, usage, and pricing tools through a Streamable HTTP MCP server. Clients authenticate with OAuth 2.1 or a Bearer API key.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://mcp.grabbit.liveclaude mcp add --transport http live-grabbit-screenshots https://mcp.grabbit.live{"mcpServers":{"live-grabbit-screenshots":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.grabbit.live"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"live-grabbit-screenshots":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.grabbit.live"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"live-grabbit-screenshots":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.grabbit.live"}}}{"mcpServers":{"live-grabbit-screenshots":{"serverUrl":"https://mcp.grabbit.live"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEPoint your agent at a URL and get back a hosted image, with no local headless browser to run. Grabbit handles cookie and consent banners, JavaScript-heavy and full-page captures, and many sites that block a local browser.
| Endpoint | https://mcp.grabbit.live (Streamable HTTP) |
| Auth | OAuth 2.1 (claude.ai connectors work out of the box) or a Bearer API key |
| Registry name | live.grabbit/screenshots |
| Setup guides | https://grabbit.live/agents |
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
grab | Screenshot any public URL and get a hosted image back (inline image + remaining credits) |
get_grab | Fetch a previous capture by id |
list_grabs | Browse your recent captures |
get_usage | Credits, plan, and 30-day usage |
get_pricing | Pricing plus an honest, dated comparison against ScreenshotOne, Urlbox, Browserless, and others |
Why a hosted screenshot tool
Most agents can already drive a headless browser. It works on simple pages and quietly fails on the ones that matter: cookie and consent walls, bot detection, login and paywall gates, and heavy client-rendered pages. Grabbit runs the capture on hosted infrastructure, so the shot comes back clean and the agent needs no browser of its own.
Honest bound: no service captures literally every site. A few hard targets behind aggressive IP blocking still resist. Private and internal addresses (including localhost) are blocked by SSRF protection.
Quick start
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http grabbit https://mcp.grabbit.live
Then run /mcp and authenticate in the browser (OAuth, no key to paste).
Guide: https://grabbit.live/agents/claude-code
Cursor
~/.cursor/mcp.json (commit a project-scoped .cursor/mcp.json to share with your team):
{ "mcpServers": { "grabbit": { "url": "https://mcp.grabbit.live" } } }
Guide: https://grabbit.live/agents/cursor
OpenAI Codex
~/.codex/config.toml:
[mcp_servers.grabbit]
url = "https://mcp.grabbit.live"
bearer_token_env_var = "GRABBIT_API_KEY"
Guide: https://grabbit.live/agents/codex
OpenClaw
Add the hosted MCP server, or wrap the one-line CLI in a skill. Guide: https://grabbit.live/agents/openclaw
Cursor Marketplace
Install Grabbit directly from the Cursor Marketplace (when listed), or add manually:
~/.cursor/mcp.json (or project-scoped .cursor/mcp.json):
{ "mcpServers": { "grabbit": { "url": "https://mcp.grabbit.live" } } }
This repo includes Cursor plugin packaging (.cursor-plugin/plugin.json, mcp.json, skill) for marketplace submission.
Agent Skills
This repo ships a portable skill folder (skills/grabbit-screenshots/) that teaches agents when and how to use the Grabbit hosted screenshot MCP.
Install via skills.sh
npx skills add BrainGridAI/grabbit-mcp --skill grabbit-screenshots
After public installs, the skill can appear on skills.sh via install telemetry (no separate submit form).
Publish to ClawHub
From the repo root:
clawhub skill publish ./skills/grabbit-screenshots --slug grabbit-screenshots --name "Grabbit Screenshots" --version 1.0.0
Install via OpenClaw / Hermes
The skill is published on ClawHub at https://clawhub.ai/braingrid/skills/grabbit-screenshots
openclaw skills install @braingrid/grabbit-screenshots
# or
clawhub install grabbit-screenshots
Hermes can install the same ClawHub skill (ClawHub is a Hermes skill source) and connect MCP at https://mcp.grabbit.live.
CLI
npx grabbit.live login # browser sign-in, keys saved locally
npx grabbit.live nyt.com # screenshot a URL, hosted image back
npx grabbit.live mcp # print MCP config for your agent
Pricing
Flat $0.002 per live capture. Prepaid credits that never reset or expire. Test keys return free placeholders so you can wire it up before paying. Full pricing and the comparison table: https://grabbit.live/#pricing
Links
- Website: https://grabbit.live
- Agent setup guides: https://grabbit.live/agents
- API reference: https://grabbit.live/screenshot-api
- LLM-readable docs: https://grabbit.live/llms.txt
The server.json in this repo is the manifest published to the official MCP
Registry. Grabbit's source lives in a private repo; this is the public home for
the MCP server's manifest and docs.
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