WebScraping.AI for VS Code

io.github.webscraping-ai/webscraping-ai

Web scraping tools with Chromium JS rendering, rotating proxies, and AI question answering.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install WebScraping.AI in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "webscraping-ai-api-key",
      "description": "WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "webscraping-ai-default-proxy-type",
      "description": "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "webscraping-ai-default-js-rendering",
      "description": "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "webscraping-ai-concurrency-limit",
      "description": "WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "webscraping-ai": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "webscraping-ai-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY": "${input:webscraping-ai-api-key}",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_PROXY_TYPE": "${input:webscraping-ai-default-proxy-type}",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_DEFAULT_JS_RENDERING": "${input:webscraping-ai-default-js-rendering}",
        "WEBSCRAPING_AI_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT": "${input:webscraping-ai-concurrency-limit}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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