Urlbox Full Page Screenshots
About
MCP server for the Urlbox Screenshot API. Enables your client to take screenshots, generate PDFs, extract HTML/markdown, and more from websites.
Details
- Author
- urlbox
- Downloads
- 293
- Categories
- Web Scraping, Automation, Other
Jump to
- Capture screenshots in PNG, PDF, MP4 formats
- Convert web pages to HTML and markdown
- Extract website metadata and cookies
- Save rendered files locally to downloads
- Block ads and hide cookie banners in screenshots
Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
Urlbox Full Page ScreenshotsCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
Install dependencies with npm install and build with npm run build. Obtain an API Secret from the Urlbox dashboard, then set the SECRET_KEY environment variable in your claude_desktop_config.json. The server provides a render tool that Claude automatically uses when asked to screenshot websites or convert web content.
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"urlbox full page screenshots": {
"urlbox": {
"command": "node",
"args": [
"<REPLACE_THIS_WITH_THE_PATH_TO_THIS_REPO>/build/index.js"
],
"env": {
"SECRET_KEY": "<REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SECRET_KEY>"
}
}
}
}
}McpServers
{
"urlbox": {
"command": "node",
"args": [
"<REPLACE_THIS_WITH_THE_PATH_TO_THIS_REPO>/build/index.js"
],
"env": {
"SECRET_KEY": "<REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SECRET_KEY>"
}
}
}Urlbox MCP Server
MCP server for the Urlbox Screenshot API. Enables your client to take screenshots, generate PDFs, extract HTML/markdown, and more from websites. Visit Urlbox for more information, and have a read of our docs or chat with your LLM post install to get a good understanding of its options and capabilities.Setup
1. Install dependencies and build: ``bash
npm install
npm run build
`
2. Get Urlbox API credentials:
- Sign up at urlbox.com
- Get your API Secret from the dashboard
3. Set environment variables:
> claude_desktop_config.json
`JSON
{
"mcpServers": {
"urlbox": {
"command": "node",
"args": [
"<REPLACE_THIS_WITH_THE_PATH_TO_THIS_REPO>/build/index.js"
],
"env": {
"SECRET_KEY": "<REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SECRET_KEY>"
}
}
}
}
`
Usage
The server provides a render tool that can:
- Take screenshots in multiple formats (PNG, PDF, MP4 and more)
- Convert pages to HTML, markdown
- Extract metadata and cookies
- Save files locally to your downloads with store_renders: true
Claude will automatically use this when you ask it to screenshot websites or convert web content.
Useful prompts
Take a clean screenshot without ads or cookie banners:
`
Take a screenshot of https://example.com but block ads and hide cookie banners
`
Screenshot and save side renders like HTML/markdown:
`
Take a screenshot of https://example.com and also save it as HTML and markdown. Download the result to my computer.
`
Generate a PDF of the full page:
`
Convert https://urlbox.com to a PDF and save it to my computer. Make sure to generate a PDF that has an outline and is tagged.
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