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arachne mcp for VS Code

io.github.samuelfmedeiros/arachne-mcp

Arachne MCP — scraping, browser, vision, OCR, RAG, Social Research, GitHub + VRT (56 tools).

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install arachne mcp in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "arachne-api-key",
      "description": "ARACHNE_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "arachne-base-url",
      "description": "ARACHNE_BASE_URL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "arachne-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "arachne-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ARACHNE_API_KEY": "${input:arachne-api-key}",
        "ARACHNE_BASE_URL": "${input:arachne-base-url}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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