Scrapling Skill

Use the scrapling CLI to scrape websites with adaptive parsing and anti-bot bypass.

When to Use

✅ USE this skill when:

• Scrape static or dynamic websites
• Bypass Cloudflare, captcha, or bot detection
• Extract structured data (HTML/JSON) from web pages
• Handle JavaScript-rendered content
• Get clean HTML without extra scripts/CSS

When NOT to Use

❌ DON'T use this skill when:

• Simple HTTP requests → use web_fetch
• Need full browser automation → use browser tool
• API-based data → use direct API calls
• Local file processing → use file tools

Setup

# Install CLI
pipx install scrapling
scrapling --version

Common Commands

Basic Scrape

# Get clean HTML
scrapling https://example.com -o html

# Get JSON structure
scrapling https://example.com -o json

# Save to file
scrapling https://example.com -o output.html

With Headers/Timeouts

# Custom headers
scrapling https://example.com --headers "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0"

# Timeout (seconds)
scrapling https://slow-site.com --timeout 30

Extract Specific Elements

# XPath extraction
scrapling https://example.com -e "//div[@class='content']" -o html

# CSS selector
scrapling https://example.com -e "div.content" -o html

JSON Output with Fields

# Extract title, meta description
scrapling https://example.com \
  --fields 'title,meta_description' \
  -o json

MCP Integration

Scrapling supports MCP (Model Context Protocol) for AI agents:

# Start MCP server
scrapling mcp start

Then configure your agent to use the scrape tool via MCP.

Examples

Scrape News Article

scrapling https://example.com/news/article-123 \
  --fields 'title,author,publish_date,content' \
  -o json

Extract Product Data

scrapling https://shop.example.com/products \
  -e "//div[@class='product']" \
  -o html

Handle Cloudflare

# Scrapling auto-bypasses most protections
scrapling https://protected-site.com -o html

Notes

• Default timeout: 10 seconds
• Auto-detects best output format (html/json/text)
• Handles dynamic content via headless browser when needed
• Rate limit friendly; add delays between requests

JSON Output Format

{
  "title": "Page Title",
  "meta_description": "Description text",
  "content": "<clean HTML>",
  "links": ["http://...", "..."],
  "images": [{"src": "...", "alt": "..."}]
}

Use the scrapling CLI to scrape websites with adaptive parsing and anti-bot bypass.

When to Use

✅ USE this skill when:

• Scrape static or dynamic websites
• Bypass Cloudflare, captcha, or bot detection
• Extract structured data (HTML/JSON) from web pages
• Handle JavaScript-rendered content
• Get clean HTML without extra scripts/CSS

When NOT to Use

❌ DON'T use this skill when:

• Simple HTTP requests → use web_fetch
• Need full browser automation → use browser tool
• API-based data → use direct API calls
• Local file processing → use file tools

Setup

# Install CLI
pipx install scrapling
scrapling --version

Common Commands

Basic Scrape

# Get clean HTML
scrapling https://example.com -o html

# Get JSON structure
scrapling https://example.com -o json

# Save to file
scrapling https://example.com -o output.html

With Headers/Timeouts

# Custom headers
scrapling https://example.com --headers "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0"

# Timeout (seconds)
scrapling https://slow-site.com --timeout 30

Extract Specific Elements

# XPath extraction
scrapling https://example.com -e "//div[@class='content']" -o html

# CSS selector
scrapling https://example.com -e "div.content" -o html

JSON Output with Fields

# Extract title, meta description
scrapling https://example.com \
  --fields 'title,meta_description' \
  -o json

MCP Integration

Scrapling supports MCP (Model Context Protocol) for AI agents:

# Start MCP server
scrapling mcp start

Then configure your agent to use the scrape tool via MCP.

Examples

Scrape News Article

scrapling https://example.com/news/article-123 \
  --fields 'title,author,publish_date,content' \
  -o json

Extract Product Data

scrapling https://shop.example.com/products \
  -e "//div[@class='product']" \
  -o html

Handle Cloudflare

# Scrapling auto-bypasses most protections
scrapling https://protected-site.com -o html

Notes

• Default timeout: 10 seconds
• Auto-detects best output format (html/json/text)
• Handles dynamic content via headless browser when needed
• Rate limit friendly; add delays between requests

JSON Output Format

{
  "title": "Page Title",
  "meta_description": "Description text",
  "content": "<clean HTML>",
  "links": ["http://...", "..."],
  "images": [{"src": "...", "alt": "..."}]
}