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DimensionScraplingWeb scraping MCP server with stealth requests, real browsers, and adaptive selectorsBioMCPOne binary. One grammar. Evidence from the biomedical sources you already trust.
FMRS52 / 100 · D75 / 100 · B
Reliability9 / 2010 / 20
Security and permissions7 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2018 / 20
Documentation12 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience11 / 2014 / 20
Best for
  • Users who need AI-assisted web data extraction
  • Python web-scraping and automation developers
  • Projects requiring browsers, sessions, proxy rotation, or adaptive selectors
  • Biomedical researchers
  • Clinicians
  • AI agents that need efficient access to biomedical literature and data analysis
Not for
  • Local data processing that does not access external websites
  • Workflows limited to static files or cloud-storage operations
  • Use cases without lawful scraping permission or without adherence to website terms and robots.txt
  • Users needing to write to upstream databases (read-only)
  • Users requiring direct access to closed datasets (e.g., COSMIC is not directly integrated)
  • Users expecting all advanced features without API keys
Required permissions
  • Access to target websites and permission to send HTTP requests or launch browsers
  • Depending on proxy, session, or browser features, corresponding network and local runtime permissions may be required
  • The source does not specify account authentication or particular API credentials
  • Requires internet access to query public biomedical APIs
  • Optional API keys (NCBI, Semantic Scholar, OpenFDA, etc.) to improve rate limits or unlock features
  • Local read/write access for skills, cache, and local study data (e.g., `~/.local/share/biomcp`)
Risks and side effects
  • Scraping may violate website terms of service, privacy regulations, or applicable data-collection laws
  • Stealth requests, browser automation, and Cloudflare bypass may trigger website security controls
  • Proxies, cookies, session state, and scraped content may contain sensitive information
  • High-concurrency or large-scale crawling may impose load on target websites
  • Upstream API rate limits may affect performance
  • Some data sources (e.g., KEGG) have licensing terms that restrict non-academic use
  • Features requiring API keys (e.g., OncoKB) may be incomplete without them
  • Local binary installations need regular updates for compatibility
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Other MCP stdio clients
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