Name: Decodo
Author: Decodo

LABSCO SUMMARY

Site-specific parsers, not just a fetcher: an Amazon listing or a Reddit thread comes back structured instead of as HTML you have to interpret.

The hard parts of scraping — rendering, geography, blocking — sit on Decodo's side, so the conversation deals in results. Two knobs are worth setting deliberately: the toolsets parameter, because all thirty tools load when no toolset is named and each one costs context on every turn, and the token limit, which keeps a large page from filling the window.

What it is

Decodo's own scraping server, organised into five toolsets — general web, search engines, ecommerce, social media and AI answer engines — over its proxy and rendering network.

What you get

Any URL scraped and returned as Markdown, or captured as a PNG screenshot
Search results parsed rather than raw: Google search, ads, Lens, AI Mode and Travel Hotels, plus Bing
Ecommerce coverage with per-page structure: Amazon search, product, pricing, sellers and bestsellers; Walmart and Target search and product; TikTok Shop search, product and URL
Social platforms as structured data: Reddit posts, subreddits and user profiles; TikTok posts with engagement, caption and hashtags; YouTube metadata, channel videos, subtitles and search
AI answer engines queried directly — ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode
Request behaviour inferred from your prompt: headless rendering, the country the request comes from, its locale, and a token limit that truncates the response for a small context window
Toolsets you can narrow to, so only the categories you need are registered at all

Requirements

A Decodo account and its basic auth token from the dashboard. Remote is the quickest path: point the client at https://mcp.decodo.com/mcp with an Authorization header, adding a toolsets query parameter to limit what is exposed. To run locally, use npm as @decodo/mcp-server over stdio with SCRAPER_API_TOKEN, and TOOLSETS to select categories. With no toolsets named, everything is registered.

Setup effort

Paste a URL with a key — add the endpoint to your client

See installation options

USE CASES

01

Reading a page that blocks ordinary fetching

Scrape it to Markdown with rendering from the country you name, or take a screenshot when the layout is the point.

scrape_as_markdownscreenshot

02

Checking where something ranks

Pull parsed Google or Bing results for the query, and the ads alongside them.

google_searchgoogle_adsbing_search

03

Tracking a product and its competition

Search the marketplace, then read the product page, its pricing and the sellers behind it.

amazon_searchamazon_productamazon_pricingamazon_sellers

04

Finding out what people are saying

Scrape the subreddit or the specific thread, or pull a TikTok post's engagement and hashtags.

reddit_subredditreddit_posttiktok_post

05

Getting the content out of a video

Fetch the video's metadata and its subtitles, or work through a channel's uploads.

youtube_metadatayoutube_subtitlesyoutube_channel

06

Seeing what the AI answer engines say about you

Query ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode for the same prompt and compare the answers.

chatgptperplexitygoogle_ai_mode

30 tools

Listed in project docs. Your client may show a different list.

scrape_as_markdown

screenshot

google_search

google_ads

google_lens

google_ai_mode

google_travel_hotels

amazon_search

amazon_product

amazon_pricing

amazon_sellers

amazon_bestsellers

walmart_search

walmart_product

target_search

BEFORE YOU INSTALL

What to know first

Tools you get

30 tools named in the project's documentation.

Requires

A client that can reach a remote MCP server over HTTP
SCRAPER_API_TOKEN in your environment

Where it runs

Of the 3 documented clients, 1 runs the server on your machine and 2 connect to a hosted endpoint.

INSTALLATION

Connect your client

Add the endpoint to your client.

Server setup

ENDPOINT URL

https://mcp.decodo.com/mcp

MCP Clients

Claude Desktop

CLAUDE DESKTOP · JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Decodo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@decodo/mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCRAPER_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_SCRAPER_API_TOKEN>",
        "TOOLSETS": "web,ai"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

CURSOR · JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Decodo": {
      "url": "https://mcp.decodo.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Basic <YOUR_SCRAPER_API_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

WINDSURF · JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Decodo": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.decodo.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Basic <YOUR_SCRAPER_API_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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