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

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.