About Web Hygiene MCP
Web Hygiene MCP is a remote server for AI agents that checks live websites, links, feeds, and citations. Its tools fetch current public web data rather than relying on cached results or model memory.
Key features
- 01Inspect robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemaps, and feeds
- 02List sitemap URLs with modification dates
- 03Check URL status, redirects, and response time
- 04Bulk-check links for errors and slow pages
- 05Verify citations and quoted passages
- 06Discover and read website feeds
Use cases
- 01Check sources and quoted text before citing
- 02Find broken or redirected links in a README
- 03Review a site's published URLs and crawler rules
MCP support
It exposes seven live-web tools to MCP clients over remote Streamable HTTP, including site inspection, link checks, feed access, and citation verification.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://bruco3--web-hygiene-mcp.apify.actor/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http luca-003-web-hygiene https://bruco3--web-hygiene-mcp.apify.actor/mcp{"mcpServers":{"luca-003-web-hygiene":{"type":"http","url":"https://bruco3--web-hygiene-mcp.apify.actor/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"luca-003-web-hygiene":{"type":"http","url":"https://bruco3--web-hygiene-mcp.apify.actor/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"luca-003-web-hygiene":{"type":"http","url":"https://bruco3--web-hygiene-mcp.apify.actor/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"luca-003-web-hygiene":{"serverUrl":"https://bruco3--web-hygiene-mcp.apify.actor/mcp"}}}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.
https://bruco3--web-hygiene-mcp.apify.actor/mcpAuth requiredTools
Details
From the project READMEWeb Hygiene MCP
· Official MCP Registry:
io.github.Luca-003/web-hygiene-mcp
Remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP) that gives AI agents seven tools answering from the live web — never from a cache or the model's memory:
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
site_overview(site) | robots.txt (sitemaps declared, AI crawlers addressed, blanket disallow), llms.txt, sitemaps with URL count sample, feeds |
list_site_urls(site_or_sitemap, max_urls, include_regex, exclude_regex) | URLs a site publishes in its sitemaps, with lastmod (≤ 2,000) |
check_url(url) | HTTP status, full redirect chain, final URL, response time, content type |
check_links(urls | site_or_sitemap, max_urls, problems_only) | Bulk check: 404s, 5xx, timeouts, SSL errors, redirect chains, slow pages (≤ 300) |
discover_feeds(site) | RSS / Atom / JSON feeds of a website |
read_feed(feed_or_site, max_items, include_content) | Normalised feed items: title, link, date in UTC, author, summary, enclosures (≤ 100) |
verify_citations(text | urls | citations, check_archive, max_citations) | Per cited URL: verified / mismatch / not-found / redirected-home / paywalled / blocked …, real title/date/author, quote match evidence, Internet Archive copy for dead links (≤ 50) |
Connect
URL: https://bruco3--web-hygiene-mcp.apify.actor/mcp
Header: Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN>
Claude Desktop / Cursor / any Streamable HTTP client:
{
"mcpServers": {
"web-hygiene": {
"url": "https://bruco3--web-hygiene-mcp.apify.actor/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN" }
}
}
}
A free Apify account gives you an API token and $5 of monthly credits. Tool calls are billed pay-per-event to your Apify account: a check_url costs a fraction of a cent; verifying the 10 sources of an answer about two cents. No subscription, nothing to run.
Try it — three prompts
- "Check the sources in the answer you just gave me: does each link exist, and is the quote really on the page?" →
verify_citations - "Before we cite anything from example.com, what does the site publish and allow?" →
site_overview - "Check every link in this README and tell me which are broken or redirected." →
check_links
Claude Code: ready-made plugin with two skills — /plugin marketplace add Luca-003/web-hygiene-claude-plugin then /plugin install web-hygiene@luca-003 (repo).
Why
Language models are confident about links and sources they have never fetched. These tools let an agent look before it claims: verify a URL exists and where it leads, check robots.txt and llms.txt before quoting a site, read what a site really publishes, confirm a cited page carries the quoted passage.
Details, pricing, issues
Full documentation, pricing table and issue tracker: https://apify.com/bruco3/web-hygiene-mcp
Related Actors for whole-site / whole-document jobs: Sitemap URL Extractor · Broken Link Checker · Feed Monitor · Citation & Link Verifier
Legal
The tools request only public files sites publish for automated readers (sitemaps, feeds, robots.txt, llms.txt) and public pages you name, with a clear User-Agent. No personal data is collected or stored.
This repository holds the registry metadata (server.json) and documentation; the server runs on Apify.
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