mcp-server MCP Server

Web scraping MCP server — scrape, extract structured data, screenshot any site with anti-bot bypass.

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Connect

Published as alterlab-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

10 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 7.

Most discussed

fix: balance warning not surfaced in error-path tool responses (review finding — PR #381)

Problem

When a scrape/extract/screenshot/crawl API call returns a 4xx error (e.g., 402 Insufficient Balance), the balance warning suffix is not appended to the error response. The X-AlterLab-Balance-Warning header IS parsed on error responses, but formatErrorResult() is called directly without appending formatBalanceWarning(client.getLastBalanceWarning()).

Source: PR #381 — Feat: proactive balance warnings (#28) Agent: Security + Billing (dual finding) Confidence: POSSIBLE

Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · closed · outside contributor · 15 comments

fix: remove dead code in waitForKeypressOrTimeout() finally block (review finding — PR #377)

Problem

The finally block in waitForKeypressOrTimeout() in src/auth.ts contains an empty if body that is dead code.

Source: PR #377 — feat(auth): add 5-second countdown with keypress opt-out to first-run flow Agent: General Security (domain: quality) Confidence: POSSIBLE Severity: LOW

Pattern Metadata

Pattern: dead-code-finally Files: src/auth.ts Root cause: The finally block was added as a belt-and-suspenders guard but the actual cleanup is handle

Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · closed · outside contributor · 13 comments

fix: shell injection via exec() in openBrowser() (review finding — PR #371)

Problem

openBrowser() in src/auth.ts:120 was constructing a shell command string (exec(cmd)) using a URL returned by the device authorization server. On Linux and macOS, a malicious or compromised device server could return a URL containing shell metacharacters (e.g., backtick subshell $(id), semicolon, pipe) that escape the double-quote boundary and execute arbitrary shell commands on the user's machine.

Source: PR #371 — feat(auth): Add OAuth device flow for seamless CLI authe

Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · closed · outside contributor · 11 comments

Bug: only 5 of 23 tools returned by tools/list — search, map, crawl, batch, sessions missing

Problem

alterlab-mcp-server@1.7.0 registers 23 tools via server.tool() (confirmed by monkey-patching McpServer.prototype.tool — all 23 return OK), but tools/list only returns 5:

alterlab_scrape
alterlab_extract
alterlab_screenshot
alterlab_estimate_cost
alterlab_check_balance

Missing tools (18): alterlab_search, alterlab_map, alterlab_crawl, alterlab_crawl_status, alterlab_crawl_cancel, alterlab_batch, alterlab_batch_status, `alterlab_list

Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · closed · outside contributor · 7 comments

fix: estimate tool formats description overstates cost prediction impact (review finding — PR #236)

Problem

The estimate tool's formats parameter description states it Affects cost prediction accuracy (src/tools/estimate.ts:24), but the /api/v1/scrape/estimate endpoint currently ignores the formats field in its cost calculation — it only uses url, cost_controls, and URL-pattern heuristics.

Source: PR #236 — Fix: add formats parameter to estimate tool (json_v2, rag, raw) Agent: General Security (security) Confidence: POSSIBLE Severity: LOW Review comment

Read the thread · 2026-06-03 · closed · outside contributor · 15 comments

Most recent

feat(sync): add block_images param and crawl export tool

Problem

The MCP server is missing two API capabilities that are live in production:

block_images parameter — available on scrape, crawl, and extract endpoints since SDK v2.3.1. Skips image downloads during browser rendering to reduce proxy bandwidth and speed up scrapes. Not exposed in the MCP scrape/crawl/extract tool schemas.
GET /crawl/{id}/export — new endpoint (PR #21189, deployed June 18). Exports crawl results as CSV/JSON/NDJSON. No corresponding MCP tool exists.

Read the thread · 2026-06-22 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Sync: Add beta feature management tools — list, enable, disable (from #19977)

Ecosystem Sync

Source: RapierCraftStudios/AlterLab @ `staging` PR: RapierCraftStudios/AlterLab#19977 Merged: 2026-06-03

What changed

PR #19977 added beta feature management methods to both the Node SDK and Python SDK:

`listBetaFeatures()` — GET /api/v1/beta-features
`listMyBetaFeatures()` — GET /api/v1/beta-features/my
`enableBetaFeature(slug)` — POST /api/v1/beta-features/{slug}/enable
`disableBetaFeature(sl

Read the thread · 2026-06-03 · closed · outside contributor · 7 comments

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