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DimensionMaxun MCP ServerTurn Any Website Into A Structured APINPM Sentinel MCP ServerAI-powered NPM package analysis MCP server
FMRS41 / 100 · D79 / 100 · B
Reliability5 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions6 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance12 / 2018 / 20
Documentation8 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience10 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • Non-technical users who want to extract data from websites without coding.
  • Developers looking to turn websites into structured APIs for integration.
  • Individuals and businesses needing automated, scheduled scraping.
  • Teams that want to self-host their scraping infrastructure.
  • Developers auditing NPM dependencies within AI workflows
  • Teams performing supply chain security assessments
  • Users of Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code
Not for
  • Large-scale scraping requiring advanced anti-bot evasion (e.g., complex CAPTCHAs) beyond simulated browsing.
  • Ultra-real-time scraping of extremely fast-changing sites.
  • Production environments needing commercial support or SLAs.
  • Users who only need simple single-page HTML scraping without full robot capabilities.
  • Projects outside the NPM ecosystem (e.g., pure Python/Go)
  • Environments without network access to deps.dev, OSV.dev, and the npm registry
  • Scenarios requiring maintenance by an official upstream vendor
Required permissions
  • Network access: connects to target websites to open pages, click, fill forms, etc., so it requires internet access.
  • API key: needs an API key from the Maxun instance for authentication.
  • Data access: may read and extract website content, including behind-login data if configured.
  • Storage and scheduling: may need permissions to schedule tasks and store extracted data in some configurations.
  • Network access to the NPM registry and external services (deps.dev, OSV.dev, OpenSSF, npms.io, GitHub)
  • Read access to workspace lockfiles (pnpm-lock.yaml, package-lock., yarn.lock) for cache invalidation
Risks and side effects
  • Legal compliance: scraping may violate website terms or applicable laws, especially with personal data; ensure you have legal rights.
  • IP bans: scraping can trigger anti-bot measures, leading to temporary or permanent IP bans.
  • Data accuracy: dynamic sites or layout changes may cause extraction failures or inaccurate data.
  • Security: when self-hosting, protect infrastructure and avoid API key leaks; data stored locally requires secure management.
  • Third-party READMEs and changelogs are untrusted external content; they are wrapped in tags with _meta flags but should still be handled cautiously
  • Depends on availability and accuracy of external services
  • Batch requests are capped at 25 packages to prevent registry enumeration; larger sets require batching
  • Third-party open source project, not officially maintained by NPM or Anthropic
Supported clientsClaude DesktopClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor
Tools919