How to integrate Scrapingant MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Scrapingant account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Scrapingant account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Scrapingant with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Scrapingant

Ask your agent to connect to Scrapingant, or simply request any Scrapingant-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Scrapingant connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Scrapingant or request any Scrapingant-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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

The Scrapingant MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Scrapingant account. It provides structured and secure access to powerful web scraping tools, so your agent can extract web data, render dynamic pages, convert content to markdown, and monitor API usage on your behalf.

  • AI-powered data extraction: Direct your agent to pull structured data from web pages using custom AI queries—ideal for capturing tables, lists, prices, or other key information.
  • Dynamic web page scraping: Scrape complex sites with JavaScript rendering, proxy rotation, and support for cookies or browser emulation to handle modern web content.
  • Content conversion to markdown: Have your agent extract and convert page content into markdown format for clean, ready-to-use text in downstream applications or LLM pipelines.
  • Extended scraping with rich JSON output: Fetch detailed responses including raw HTML, headers, cookies, and other metadata to support advanced automation and analysis tasks.
  • API credit monitoring: Let your agent check and report on your current Scrapingant API credit usage, helping you manage quotas and avoid interruptions.

Way Forward

With Scrapingant connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Extract Content as Markdown

This tool extracts content from a given URL and converts it into Markdown format.

Extract Data with AI

This tool allows you to extract structured data from a web page using ScrapingAnt's AI-powered extraction capabilities.

Get API Credits Usage

This tool retrieves the current API credit usage status for the authenticated ScrapingAnt account.

Scrape Web Page

This tool scrapes a web page using the ScrapingAnt API.

Scrape Webpage via POST

Tool to perform a POST request through ScrapingAnt's proxy to scrape a webpage.

Scrape Webpage with PUT

Tool to perform a PUT request through ScrapingAnt's proxy to scrape a webpage that requires PUT method.

Scrape with Extended JSON Output

Scrapes a web page and returns comprehensive data including HTML content, plain text, cookies, HTTP headers, XHR/Fetch requests, and iframe content.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Hermes 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 Scrapingant tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Scrapingant 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 Scrapingant data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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