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

Related MCP server: Spider MCP Server

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": ["bypassapi-mcp"],
      "env": { "BYPASSAPI_KEY": "psk_live_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bypassapi": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["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 bypassapi-mcp

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

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.