Urlbox MCP Server

MCP server for the Urlbox Screenshot API. Enables your client to take screenshots, generate PDFs, extract HTML/markdown, and more from websites.

Visit Urlbox for more information, and have a read of our docs or chat with your LLM post install to get a good understanding of its options and capabilities.

Setup

1. Install dependencies and build:

   npm install
   npm run build

2. Get Urlbox API credentials:

   • Sign up at urlbox.com
   • Get your API Secret from the dashboard

3. Set environment variables:

claude_desktop_config.json

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "urlbox": {
            "command": "node",
            "args": [
                "<REPLACE_THIS_WITH_THE_PATH_TO_THIS_REPO>/build/index.js"
            ],
            "env": {
                "SECRET_KEY": "<REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SECRET_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}

Usage

The server provides a render tool that can:

• Take screenshots in multiple formats (PNG, PDF, MP4 and more)
• Convert pages to HTML, markdown
• Extract metadata and cookies
• Save files locally to your downloads with store_renders: true

Claude will automatically use this when you ask it to screenshot websites or convert web content.

Useful prompts

Take a clean screenshot without ads or cookie banners:

Take a screenshot of https://example.com but block ads and hide cookie banners

Screenshot and save side renders like HTML/markdown:

Take a screenshot of https://example.com and also save it as HTML and markdown. Download the result to my computer.

Generate a PDF of the full page:

Convert https://urlbox.com to a PDF and save it to my computer. Make sure to generate a PDF that has an outline and is tagged.