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DimensionDecodo MCP ServerEnable your AI agents to scrape and parse web content dynamically, including geo-restricted sitesContext7Upstash's official server providing up-to-date third-party library docs for AI coding assistants
FMRS57 / 100 · C80 / 100 · B
Reliability7 / 2014 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance9 / 2017 / 20
Documentation16 / 2015 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2018 / 20
Best for
  • Developers who need real-time web data for LLMs and RAG pipelines
  • Teams building eCommerce intelligence, social monitoring, or price aggregation tools
  • AI agent projects that want production scraping without maintaining proxy infrastructure
  • Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
  • Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
Not for
  • Users who cannot rely on a third-party paid scraping service or hosted endpoint
  • Workflows needing only local file or internal data access
  • Privacy-sensitive cases where sending target URLs and prompts to Decodo's servers is unacceptable
  • Looking up internal/private codebase documentation (Context7 targets publicly published open-source libraries)
  • Cases needing very high coverage of obscure, niche libraries (coverage depends on what Context7's platform has indexed)
Required permissions
  • Requires a Decodo Web Scraping API basic auth token (SCRAPER_API_TOKEN)
  • Downloads and runs the @decodo/mcp-server package via npx from npm
  • Requires network access to call Decodo's hosted scraping service
  • Usable without an API key (subject to a free-tier rate limit); CONTEXT7_API_KEY is an optional credential for higher quota
  • Read-only documentation lookup — no code execution or local filesystem access involved
Risks and side effects
  • All target URLs and prompts pass through a third-party (Decodo) server
  • API usage costs apply once the free quota is exhausted
  • Scraping target sites may violate their terms of service; verify compliance yourself
  • Dependency on an external npm package and hosted API introduces supply-chain and availability risks
  • The free tier has limited quota — high-frequency use may hit rate limits
  • Documentation content comes from Context7's platform index, so its accuracy and freshness depend on that platform's crawl cadence
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude CodeClaude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp
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