Renderly MCP
Enables AI agents to capture clean web screenshots and extract main article content from any web page, with automatic removal of cookie banners, ads, and boilerplate.
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Renderly MCP
Clean web screenshots & content for AI agents. An MCP server that gives your AI agent two tools:
screenshot— capture a clean PNG/JPEG of any web page. Cookie banners, ads, and chat widgets are auto-removed, so the image is clean for vision models.extract— get the clean main article content (Markdown / text / HTML) of a page, boilerplate stripped — ideal for LLMs / RAG.
Real Chromium rendering, so JavaScript-built pages work. Powered by Renderly.
Setup
-
Get a RapidAPI key — subscribe to Renderly (free tier available):
- Screenshot & PDF API: https://rapidapi.com/xufei547/api/screenshot-pdf-api2
- Article Extraction API: https://rapidapi.com/xufei547/api/article-extraction-api
Both share one RapidAPI key (your
X-RapidAPI-Key). -
Add the server to your MCP client.
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Add to your MCP config (claude_desktop_config.json or Cursor's mcp.json):
{
"mcpServers": {
"renderly": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/xufei547/renderly-mcp", "renderly-mcp"],
"env": { "RAPIDAPI_KEY": "your-rapidapi-key" }
}
}
}
(uvx ships with uv — it installs and runs the server straight from GitHub, no extra steps. Prefer pip? pip install git+https://github.com/xufei547/renderly-mcp then use "command": "renderly-mcp".)
Tools
| Tool | Args | Returns |
|---|---|---|
screenshot |
url, full_page, block_cookie_banners, format (png/jpeg), width, height |
image |
extract |
url, format (markdown/text/html), include_tables |
clean content |
Example prompts
- "Screenshot https://example.com and describe what's on the page."
- "Extract the article at <url> and summarize it."
Configuration (env vars)
| Var | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
RAPIDAPI_KEY |
— | Required. Your RapidAPI key. |
RENDERLY_SCREENSHOT_HOST |
screenshot-pdf-api2.p.rapidapi.com |
Screenshot API host (see your RapidAPI "Code Snippets"). |
RENDERLY_EXTRACT_HOST |
article-extraction-api.p.rapidapi.com |
Extraction API host. |
RENDERLY_TIMEOUT |
90 |
Request timeout (seconds). |
License
MIT
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