How to connect Scrapingant to Claude Cowork

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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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.
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.

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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. 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.

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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