What is the best MCP server or skill for web scraping?

By tashan's measured score: Actionbook, Firecrawl · firecrawl, Alltuu Downloader, Photoplus Downloader, Tavily · tavily-ai. the score combines upkeep and freshness, gated by real adoption — every input is public and re-derivable, and no ranking position can be purchased.

Who does web scraping as part of their job?

This is work our corpus shows people doing that O*NET does not yet have a process step for — agentic tooling post-dates its software survey.

How is the ranking calculated?

From public signal only: npm download volume and publish cadence, GitHub push/release recency, contributor count, registry status, and how often a capability appears in real public agent configs. Nobody can pay to change a score, rank, or listing.

The Index · Web scraping

Web scraping

'Scraping' / 'extraction' — structured data out of pages. tashan measures 24 capabilities for this work and ranks them by tashan score — a transparent composite of upkeep, freshness and real adoption. How we measure ›

#	Capability	tashan	Evidence	Health
1	Actionbook server thin Browser & Web	74	2k ★	active
2	Firecrawl · firecrawl server deep Browser & Web	72	542 ★	active
3	Alltuu Downloader server thin Search	70	700 ★	active
4	Photoplus Downloader server thin Finance & Crypto	70	700 ★	active
5	Tavily · tavily-ai server solid Search	68	433 ★	active
6	Nimble server solid Dev Tools & CI	67	50 ★	active
7	Zyte Web Data server solid Productivity	64	27 ★	active
8	Parallel server solid Productivity	64	62 ★	active
9	Serpapi Claude Plugin server solid Search	59	13 ★	active
10	Tinyfish server thin Productivity	59	14 ★	active
11	Openweb server deep Productivity	58	35 ★	active
12	Firecrawl Workflows server thin Productivity	56	101 ★	active
13	Gooseworks server deep Communication	54	6 ★	active
14	Browser Act server thin Dev Tools & CI	52	21 ★	active
15	Haunt API server Productivity	50	2 ★	active
16	Browser Use server Dev Tools & CI	49	7 ★	active
17	Vibesurfer server Dev Tools & CI	49	15 ★	active
18	Brightdata Plugin server Browser & Web	46	2 marketplaces	—
19	LinkedIn Apply server Productivity	44	1 marketplaces	active
·	Browser Automation skill Browser & Web	not scored yet	23k ★	active
·	Universal Scraping Architect skill Productivity	not scored yet	23k ★	active
·	YouTube Full skill Productivity	not scored yet	23k ★	active
·	Apify Automation skill Browser & Web	not scored yet	70k ★	active
·	Firecrawl Automation skill Productivity	not scored yet	70k ★	active

Who does this work

O*NET has no process step for this yet — its software occupations were surveyed before agentic tooling existed. We list it because the corpus plainly shows people doing it, and we say so rather than forcing it onto an unrelated step.

Other work

Agent configuration Agent development Animation and generated imagery Application development Attribution Bookkeeping Browser automation Code review Content marketing Contract review Copy editing Copywriting Dashboards and reporting Data pipelines Data quality Database access Debugging Design critique Document production Exploratory data analysis Financial modelling Incident response Infrastructure and deployment Knowledge management Literature review Market analysis Messaging and email Model evaluation Observability PRDs and specs Process automation Product strategy Project management Prompt engineering Query optimisation Regulatory compliance Retrieval systems Risk assessment SEO Sales pipeline Scientific research Security review Software architecture Statistical modelling Technical documentation Test automation Training material User research Video editing Visual design Web development Web research

Occupational data from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, used under CC BY 4.0. tashan consolidated its process steps into the terms practitioners use; O*NET does not endorse this site.

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