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DimensionDecodo MCP ServerEnable your AI agents to scrape and parse web content dynamically, including geo-restricted sitesGitHub MCP ServerGitHub's official MCP server for managing repos, issues, PRs, and workflows via natural language
FMRS57 / 100 · C76 / 100 · B
Reliability7 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2014 / 20
Maintenance9 / 2018 / 20
Documentation16 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2014 / 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
  • Teams that want an AI assistant to directly operate on GitHub repos and collaboration workflows
  • Users already in the GitHub Copilot ecosystem who want a zero-deployment remote option
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
  • Scenarios where you don't want the assistant to have write access to repos (enable only read-only toolsets)
  • Environments with strict network isolation for private repos that can't reach the official remote endpoint
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
  • A personal access token (PAT) or OAuth App token; effective scope depends on the token's own permissions
  • Enabling toolsets like actions/issues/pull_requests grants write access — request tokens on a least-privilege basis
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
  • Write toolsets (creating/merging PRs, triggering workflows) can cause accidental changes if the token is overscoped — try a read-only toolset first
  • In hosted mode, credentials travel via the Authorization header — make sure the client-to-api.githubcopilot.com connection is trusted
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude CodeClaude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Zed, Amp
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