Rod MCP Server
About
Rod MCP Server is a browser automation server built on the Rod library, providing tools for large language models to interact with web pages. It enables actions like clicking elements, taking screenshots, and saving pages as PDFs, running in headless or GUI mode.
Details
- Author
- go-rod
- GitHub stars
- 34
- Downloads
- 343
- Categories
- Other, Automation, AI
Jump to
- Browser automation via Go‑Rod
- Element clicking, screenshot capture, PDF generation
- Headless and GUI mode support
- High performance and stability
- Easy configuration and extension
- Designed for LLM interaction
Clone the repository and build the binary (or download a release), then configure your MCP client with the command rod-mcp and arguments ["-c", "rod-mcp.yaml"]. The YAML file supports options for browser path, headless mode, temporary directory, sandbox, and proxy.
Rod MCP Server
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<strong>Wow! It's awesome, now you can use the MCP server of Rod!🚀</strong>
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<strong>Rod-MCP provides browser automation capabilities for your applications by using Rod. The server provides many useful mcp tools enable LLMs to interact with the web pages, like click, take screenshot, save page as pdf etc.</strong>
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<h3>Engilsh | <a href='./README_CN.md'> 中文 </a></h3>
Features
- 🚀 Browser automation powered by Rod
- 🎯 Rich web interaction capabilities
- Element clicking
- Screenshot capture
- PDF generation
- And more...
- 🎨 Headless/GUI mode support
- ⚡ High performance and stability
- 🔧 Easy to configure and extend
- 🤖 Designed for LLMs interaction
Installation
Prerequisites
- Go 1.23 or higher
- Chrome/Chromium browser
Steps
1. Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/go-rod/rod-mcp.git
cd rod-mcp
2. Install dependencies:
go mod tidy
3. Build the project:
go build
Usage
Basic Usage
1. Clone Repo and Build Self or Go to Download Release
2. Configure MCP:
{
"mcpServers": {
"rod-mcp": {
"command": "rod-mcp",
"args": [
"-c", "rod-mcp.yaml"
]
}
}
}
Configuration
The configuration file supports the following options:
- serverName: Server name, default is "Rod Server"
- browserBinPath: Browser executable file path, use system default browser if empty
- headless: Whether to run the browser in headless mode, default is false
- browserTempDir: Browser temporary file directory, default is "./rod/browser"
- noSandbox: Whether to disable sandbox mode, default is false
- proxy: Proxy server settings, supports socks5 proxy
Project Structure
rod-mcp/
├── assets/ # Static resources
├── banner/ # Banner resources
├── cmd.go # Command line processing
├── main.go # Program entry
├── resources/ # Resource files
├── server.go # Server implementation
├── tools/ # Tool implementation
├── types/ # Type definitions
└── utils/ # Utility functions
Contribution Guidelines
Welcome to submit Pull Request or create Issue!
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file
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