How to integrate Scrapfly MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Scrapfly MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

Scrapfly logoScrapfly
Api Key

Scrapfly is a powerful web scraping API that extracts data from any website. It lets developers handle tough sites with JavaScript rendering, proxy rotation, and anti-bot protection.

12 Tools

Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Scrapfly MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

Also integrate Scrapfly with

Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • CodeAct: A dedicated workbench that allows GPT to write its code to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Large tool responses: Handle them to minimise context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so GPTs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install Scrapfly MCP in Codex

Run the setup command

Run this command in your terminal to add the Composio MCP server to Codex.

Terminal

It will initiate the authentication in a browser window, authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

Composio authentication page

(Optional) Authenticate with OAuth

To authenticate manually, run the login command to open a browser window and authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

bash
codex mcp login composio

Verify the connection

Run codex mcp list to confirm Composio appears as a registered MCP server.

bash
codex mcp list

Codex App

Codex App follows the same approach as VS Code.

  1. Click ⚙️ on the bottom left → MCP Servers → + Add servers → Streamable HTTP:
  2. Fill the header and Key fields with { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }.
  3. The Key is the Composio API key, that you can find on dashboard.composio.dev
  4. Click on Authenticate and authorize Codex to your Composio account and you're all set.
Codex App MCP setup
  1. Restart and verify if it's there in .codex/config.toml
bash
[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

What is the Scrapfly MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Scrapfly MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Scrapfly account. It provides structured and secure access to powerful web scraping capabilities, so your agent can perform actions like extracting website data, bypassing anti-bot protection, rendering JavaScript content, and rotating proxies—all on your behalf.

  • Dynamic web data extraction: Instruct your agent to fetch and extract content from almost any website, even those with heavy client-side rendering or complex structures.
  • JavaScript rendering support: Enable your agent to scrape websites that require full JavaScript execution for content loading, making dynamic sites accessible for data extraction.
  • Anti-bot protection bypass: Allow your agent to automatically navigate sites with CAPTCHAs, bot detection, or rate limiting using Scrapfly's built-in countermeasures.
  • Automatic proxy rotation: Let your agent leverage Scrapfly's proxy network to rotate requests, reduce blocks, and ensure more reliable scraping at scale.
  • Custom request handling: Have your agent specify advanced options like custom headers or cookies for targeted and flexible scraping sessions.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Scrapfly with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Scrapfly directly from your terminal, VS Code, or the Codex App using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across CLI, VS Code, and standalone app
  • Natural language commands for Scrapfly operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • CodeAct workbench for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking Codex to perform various Scrapfly operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Scrapfly action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Capture Website Screenshot

Tool to capture a full-page or viewport screenshot of a website.

Capture Screenshot Metadata (HEAD)

Tool to capture screenshot metadata without downloading the image body.

Create Scrapfly Crawler

Tool to create a new web crawler to recursively crawl an entire website.

Extract Structured Data

Tool to extract structured data from HTML or other content using AI models, LLM prompts, or custom templates.

Get Scrapfly Account Information

Tool to retrieve Scrapfly account information.

Get Crawler Artifact

Tool to download crawler artifact files in WARC or HAR format.

Get Crawler Contents

Tool to retrieve extracted content from crawled pages.

Get Crawler Status

Tool to get the current status of a crawler including progress, pages crawled, and completion state.

Get Crawler URLs

Tool to retrieve the list of discovered and crawled URLs from a crawler.

Scrapfly Scrape

Tool to perform a web scraping request.

Scrapfly Scrape POST

Tool to scrape web pages using POST method to send data in the request body.

Scrape With PUT

Tool to scrape web pages using PUT method with body payload.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Scrapfly MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Scrapfly tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Scrapfly and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Codex fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Scrapfly tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Scrapfly scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Scrapfly data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

Start with Scrapfly.It takes 30 seconds.

Managed auth, hosted MCP servers, and every Scrapfly tool your agent needs.Free to start.

Start building