BypassAPI MCP Server

Give your AI agent real-world web access. This Model Context Protocol server exposes BypassAPI so any MCP client — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Zed — can fetch any page (even behind Cloudflare or CAPTCHAs), get clean LLM-ready markdown, extract structured data, crawl sites, and map URLs.

Think Firecrawl, but it gets through the pages that block everyone else.

Tools

Tool	What it does
scrape	Fetch one page → clean markdown / text / html. Handles JS, Cloudflare, bot walls.
extract	Pull structured data from a page with a prompt (optional JSON schema).
crawl	Follow links from a start URL, up to N pages / depth.
map_site	List a site's URLs (sitemap-style), no content.
batch	Scrape up to 50 URLs in one call.
account	Check remaining credits + usage.

Get an API key

Sign up at bypassapi.com and copy your key (psk_live_...). New accounts include trial credits.

Install & configure

The server runs via uvx (no manual install) or pip. Add the block below to your client's MCP config and put your key in BYPASSAPI_KEY.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bypassapi": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/inside83/bypassapi-mcp", "bypassapi-mcp"],
      "env": { "BYPASSAPI_KEY": "psk_live_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Settings → MCP):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bypassapi": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/inside83/bypassapi-mcp", "bypassapi-mcp"],
      "env": { "BYPASSAPI_KEY": "psk_live_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf / Cline / Zed

Same shape — a bypassapi entry with command: uvx, args: ["bypassapi-mcp"], and BYPASSAPI_KEY in env.

pip instead of uvx

pip install git+https://github.com/inside83/bypassapi-mcp

then use "command": "bypassapi-mcp" (or "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "bypassapi_mcp"]) in the config above.

PyPI package (uvx bypassapi-mcp / pip install bypassapi-mcp) coming soon. For now install from git as shown above.

Example prompts

Once connected, just ask your agent:

• "Scrape the pricing page at example.com and summarize the tiers."
• "This site is behind Cloudflare — extract the product name, price, and stock status." (set solve_cf: true if blocked)
• "Crawl docs.example.com, 20 pages, and list every API endpoint you find."
• "Map competitor.com and tell me which URLs look like blog posts."

Configuration (env)

Var	Default	Notes
BYPASSAPI_KEY	—	Required. Your API key.
BYPASSAPI_BASE	https://bypassapi.com	Override for self-hosted / staging.
BYPASSAPI_TIMEOUT	120	Per-request timeout (seconds).

Notes

• Each call spends credits from your account (scrape cheapest, extract/crawl more). Check with the account tool.
• use_proxy: true routes through rotating residential proxies for rate-limited or geo-blocked sites.
• solve_cf: true forces Cloudflare-challenge solving (slower — use only when a page is blocked).

Built by PESARES. MIT-licensed client; the API is a paid service.