# PyScrappy MCP Server

Web-scraping toolkit with 22 tools for structured web data as JSON for AI agents.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `pyscrappy` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**13 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 10.

### Most discussed

### scrape_stock MCP tool documents quote/profile fields the scraper never returns

The `scrape_stock` MCP tool docstring advertises `quote` and `profile` shapes whose fields the scraper does not emit, so an agent (or user) reading the tool schema is told to read keys that will never be present.

### Where

`src/pyscrappy/mcp/server.py` (the `scrape_stock` docstring):

```
- "quote":   {"symbol", "price", "currency", "change", "change_percent", "market_time"}.
- "profile": {"symbol", "name", "sector", "industry", "country", "website", "summary"}.
```

### What the scraper actua

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy/issues/112) · 2026-08-08 · closed · 1 comment

### convert_currency docstring states wrong defaults for base and to

### The bug
The `convert_currency` MCP tool docstring states two defaults that don't match the function signature, so an agent reading the doc is misinformed.

Signature (`src/pyscrappy/mcp/server.py:332`):
```python
async def convert_currency(base: str = "USD", to: str | None = None, amount: float = 1.0)
```

Docstring (`server.py:342-343`):
```
base: Base currency code as a 3-letter ISO 4217 string. Example: "USD". No default (required).
to:   Target currency codes ...; omit or leave empty ...

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy/issues/96) · 2026-08-05 · closed · 1 comment

### get_weather docstring promises a 'wind' key but the scraper emits 'wind_speed'

### The bug
The `get_weather` MCP tool docstring promises a `wind` key, but the scraper never emits one — it emits `wind_speed`. A consumer keying `item["wind"]` (per the tool doc) gets a `KeyError`/`None`.

Doc (`src/pyscrappy/mcp/server.py:431`):
> Fetch the current weather … return a dict with keys: temperature (…degrees Celsius), humidity (…percent), **wind** (number, wind speed), condition (…), and location (…).

Scraper output (`src/pyscrappy/scrapers/weather.py:144-148`):
```python
"tempe

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy/issues/95) · 2026-08-05 · closed · 1 comment

### GitHubScraper default max_results (30) disagrees with its MCP tool (20)

### The problem
`GitHubScraper` and its MCP tool disagree on the default `max_results`, so the same call returns a different number of results depending on how it's invoked.

- `src/pyscrappy/scrapers/github.py:47` (and `:84`): `max_results: int = 30`
- `src/pyscrappy/mcp/server.py:373`: `search_github(query, max_results: int = 20, ...)`, and the tool docstring (line ~381) says `Default 20`.

So `GitHubScraper().scrape(query="...")` returns up to 30, while the same search through the MCP `search

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy/issues/79) · 2026-08-02 · closed · 1 comment

### Make the MCP server's cache TTL configurable (env var)

The MCP server hardcodes its response cache TTL, and the code says so:

```python
# src/pyscrappy/mcp/server.py
# Hardcoded for now; a future version will make this configurable.
_CACHE_TTL = 300.0
```

Different deployments want different freshness/latency tradeoffs, so this should be configurable — e.g. a `PYSCRAPPY_MCP_CACHE_TTL` env var, falling back to 300s.

### Acceptance
- `_CACHE_TTL` reads from an env var (e.g. PYSCRAPPY_MCP_CACHE_TTL) with the current 300s default.
- A test confirms t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy/issues/64) · 2026-07-31 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### search_images doc lists keys (image_url/thumbnail_url/source_url) the scraper doesn't emit

### The bug
The `search_images` MCP tool docstring documents result keys that the scraper doesn't emit, so a consumer keying by the documented names gets nothing.

Doc (`src/pyscrappy/mcp/server.py:264`):
> Each result is a dict with keys: **"image_url"**, **"thumbnail_url"**, **"source_url"**, "title", "width", "height".

Actual scraper output (`src/pyscrappy/scrapers/image_search.py:137-140`):
```python
"url": img_url,
"thumbnail": m_data.get("turl", ""),
"title": ...,
"source_page": m_data.ge

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy/issues/104) · 2026-08-05 · closed · 0 comments

### search_hackernews MCP tool drops the tags filter the scraper supports

### The problem
`HackerNewsScraper.scrape` supports a `tags` filter (`story`, `comment`, `show_hn`, `ask_hn`, `poll`, …), but the MCP `search_hackernews` tool doesn't expose it — so an agent can only ever get `story` results.

Scraper (`src/pyscrappy/scrapers/hackernews.py:36-49`):
```python
def scrape(self, query, max_results=20, by="relevance", tags="story") -> ScrapeResult:
    ...
```
`tags` is wired into the Algolia query in `_build_url` (`hackernews.py:91-95`, `&tags={tags}`).

MCP tool (`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy/issues/90) · 2026-08-04 · closed · 0 comments

### scrape_stock MCP tool drops the interval param (history locked to daily)

### The problem
`StockScraper.scrape` supports an `interval` parameter for historical data, but the MCP `scrape_stock` tool doesn't expose it, so every history request through MCP is locked to daily bars.

Scraper (`src/pyscrappy/scrapers/stock.py:41-47`):
```python
def scrape(self, symbol, mode="quote", period="1mo", interval="1d") -> ScrapeResult:
    ...
```
`interval` is threaded into the Yahoo chart URL for history (and is already covered by a test that asserts `interval=1wk` in the request

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy/issues/89) · 2026-08-04 · closed · 0 comments

### search_images MCP tool advertises a 'duckduckgo' engine that isn't implemented

### The bug
The `search_images` MCP tool advertises a `duckduckgo` engine that the scraper doesn't implement, so `engine="duckduckgo"` silently returns **Bing** results with no error.

MCP tool docstring (`src/pyscrappy/mcp/server.py:266`):
> `engine: String naming the search engine, one of "bing", "google", or "duckduckgo", e.g. "google". Defaults to "bing".`

But the scraper only handles `google`, and anything else falls through to Bing (`src/pyscrappy/scrapers/image_search.py:57-60`):
```pyth

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy/issues/88) · 2026-08-04 · closed · 0 comments

### NewsScraper crashes on a network error instead of returning a ScrapeError

### The bug
`NewsScraper` doesn't guard its network fetches, so a network error crashes the whole scrape instead of being returned as a `ScrapeError`. Every other API scraper (crypto, currency, weather, github, hackernews, ikea) wraps its fetch and returns a `ScrapeError` result; News is the outlier.

Unguarded fetches:
- `_scrape_feed` — `src/pyscrappy/scrapers/news.py:82` (`xml_text = self.http.get_html(url)`)
- `_scrape_site` — `src/pyscrappy/scrapers/news.py:102` (`html = self.http.get_html(

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mldsveda/PyScrappy/issues/87) · 2026-08-04 · closed · 0 comments

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