Crawl4AI MCP Server

Self-hosted web crawling and content extraction exposed as MCP tools. Scrape pages, crawl sites with depth control, and extract clean markdown — all self-hosted and free.

Prerequisites

MCP-compatible client, Python 3.10+ with Playwright or Docker

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• Docker eliminates all setup complexity and provides a consistent environment:
• docker pull uysalsadi/crawl4ai-mcp-server:latest
• git clone https://github.com/uysalsadi/crawl4ai-mcp-server.git
• docker build -f Dockerfile.simple -t crawl4ai-mcp .

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Choose between Docker (recommended) or manual installation:

• Option A: Docker (Recommended) 🐳

• python test-config.py

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• 🚀 Quick Start

• No setup required! Just pull and run the published image

• Source: https://github.com/sadiuysal/crawl4ai-mcp-server

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sadiuysal/crawl4ai-mcp-server/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://docs.crawl4ai.com/

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange