Fastcrawl

Cloud scraping & crawling API for AI agents.

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What it can do

  • Scrape: Scrape a URL and return clean, LLM-ready markdown. Renders JavaScript. Set waitFor (ms) for heavy SPAs. Use formats: ['json'] for structured data extraction.
  • Crawl: Crawl a website breadth-first (parallel). Returns a job id; poll GET /api/v1/crawl/{id}/ for the result.
  • Map: Discover URLs on a website (sitemap + page links).

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

Cloud scraping & crawling API for AI agents. Turn any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown, or crawl, map, search and extract a whole site — JavaScript rendering included. Free tier with 2,000 credits/month, no card. One API key works across REST and MCP.

How to connect

How to connect Fastcrawl to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://fastcrawl.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect Fastcrawl to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://fastcrawl.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect Fastcrawl to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://fastcrawl.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (12)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

scrapeScrape a URL and return clean, LLM-ready markdown. Renders JavaScript. Set waitFor (ms) for heavy SPAs. Use formats: ['json'] for structured data extraction.
crawlCrawl a website breadth-first (parallel). Returns a job id; poll GET /api/v1/crawl/{id}/ for the result.
mapDiscover URLs on a website (sitemap + page links).
searchSearch the web and return ranked results (title, url, snippet).
extractExtract structured JSON from a page using an LLM and a schema.
screenshotCapture a full-page screenshot of a URL as base64 PNG.
pdfRender a URL to PDF (base64).
parseParse a PDF document into clean, LLM-ready markdown.
monitor_createCreate a monitor — scheduled re-scrape of a URL with change detection.
monitor_listList your monitors with last run status.
monitor_runRun a monitor immediately (1 credit on success).
monitor_deleteDelete a monitor (irreversible).