How to connect Scrapingant to Claude Cowork

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Scrapingant account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to extract product prices from Amazon search page, convert a blog post to markdown format, get API usage stats for your account, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Scrapingant to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Scrapingant account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Scrapingant or give it any Scrapingant-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Extract product prices from Amazon search page"
  • "Convert a blog post to markdown format"
  • "Get API usage stats for your account"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Scrapingant account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Scrapingant through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Extract Content as MarkdownThis tool extracts content from a given url and converts it into markdown format.
Extract Data with AIThis tool allows you to extract structured data from a web page using scrapingant's ai-powered extraction capabilities.
Get API Credits UsageThis tool retrieves the current api credit usage status for the authenticated scrapingant account.
Scrape Web PageThis tool scrapes a web page using the scrapingant api.
Scrape with Extended JSON OutputThis tool scrapes a target url and returns an extended json response.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Scrapingant MCP?

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.

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Cowork?

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork 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.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Scrapingant while using Tool Router?

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.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

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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