Web Reaper MCP Server

AI-native web scraper. Single binary with a bundled Claude Code skill. Built by HighCraft.io.

People who work with crawler, parser and webcrawler and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in C#.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-07-11 · ★ 148 · #78 OF 93 MAINTAINED WEB SCRAPING · VERIFIED 2026-09-18

MIT · C# · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

license MIT - declared in the repository

registry namespace io.github.alex-on-ai is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

02 · What Web Reaper can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

Latest releases

v11.3.2 · 2026-06-28

11.3.2: WebReaper.Mcp registry ownership marker · A metadata-only patch to WebReaper.Mcp. No API or behaviour changes. · MCP Registry listing. Adds the mcp-name: io.github.alex-on-ai/webreaper ownership marker to the…

v11.3.1 · 2026-06-27

11.3.1: alex-on-ai canonicalization (metadata + branding) · A metadata and branding patch that finishes the GitHub account rename from pavlovtech to alex-on-ai. No API changes; the one behavioural change is that the…

v11.3.0 · 2026-06-06

11.3.0: MCP progress + schema-free extraction (extract_inferred) · An additive release for the MCP servers. No breaking changes, no API removals. · Progress over MCP ([ADR-0085]). The scrape, extract…

03 · Who maintains Web Reaper

WebReaper is maintained by alex-on-ai. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to Apr 2022.

04 · Facts

repository
github.com/alex-on-ai/webreaper
website
https://webreaper.ai/
category
web scraping - ranked #78 of 93 actively-maintained web scraping servers as of 2026-09-18.
release cadence
2 releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-06-28)
registry
io.github.alex-on-ai/webreaper (active, first published 2026-06-28)
packages
nuget:WebReaper.Mcp

05 · Web Reaper FAQ

What is Web Reaper?

AI-native web scraper. Single binary with a bundled Claude Code skill. Built by HighCraft.io.

Is Web Reaper still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-07-11 and it shipped 2 releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

06 · Alternatives to Web Reaper

Alternatives to Web Reaper

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  5. Tavily MCP MCP server for advanced web search using Tavily ★ 2,390 · 2026-09-16
  6. Open Brand Extract brand assets (logos, colors, backdrop images, brand name) from any website URL ★ 797 · 2026-05-12

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