How to integrate Zenrows MCP with Atomic Agent

Connect Atomic Agent to Zenrows MCP. Download a pdf of this news article, extract plain text from the given webpage, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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ZenRows is a web scraping API that helps you gather structured data from dynamic and protected websites. It makes extracting web data easy by bypassing CAPTCHAs and anti-bot measures.

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Introduction

Atomic Agent is an open-source AI agent that runs on your machine and supports local models through llama.cpp. Connect it to 1,500+ apps through Composio, including Zenrows.

This guide uses Atomic Agent's built-in Composio integration. You need Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later, your own Composio API key, and a Zenrows account. See the Atomic Agent documentation for installation instructions.

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How Atomic Agent connects to Zenrows

Atomic Agent connects to Composio's Tool Router over Streamable HTTP MCP. It discovers the tools needed for your request, and Composio handles account authentication.

Execution and account-connection tools follow Atomic Agent's configured approval policy. Review any approval prompt before allowing an action on your connected account.

Connect Zenrows to Atomic Agent

  1. Sign up or sign in to the Composio dashboard. Copy your API key.
  2. In Atomic Agent, open the Integrations tab and select Composio. Select API key, press e, paste the key, and press Enter. The tools become available immediately, without a restart.
  3. Ask Atomic Agent to do something in Zenrows. It searches Composio for the right tool.
  4. On first use, open the sign-in link returned in the chat. Connect your Zenrows account, then return to Atomic Agent to continue.

Headless setup

Add the following line to ~/.atomic-agent/.env, replacing YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY with your key. Start Atomic Agent after saving the file.

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY

What is the Zenrows MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Zenrows MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Zenrows account. It provides structured and secure access to advanced web scraping capabilities, so your agent can extract structured data, bypass CAPTCHAs, convert pages to PDF, and monitor your API usage on your behalf.

  • Intelligent web data extraction: Direct your agent to scrape and extract plain text or structured data from dynamic websites, including specialized real estate property data from platforms like Zillow or Idealista.
  • PDF and content generation: Ask your agent to convert any web page into a PDF or retrieve clean, formatted plain text for archiving, documentation, or offline reading.
  • Seamless CAPTCHA and block bypassing: Enable your agent to gather data from sites protected by CAPTCHAs or anti-bot systems without manual intervention.
  • Real-time API usage monitoring: Have the agent check your account’s current API usage, concurrency status, and limits to help manage credits and avoid interruptions.
  • Session and compression management: Instruct your agent to maintain consistent scraping sessions, handle compression to optimize bandwidth, and retrieve detailed response headers for debugging and performance optimization.

Use Zenrows from Atomic Agent

With your account connected, ask Atomic Agent to work with Zenrows in natural language. You can connect more apps through the same Composio integration as you need them.

Visit the Atomic Agent website or inspect the Atomic Agent source code.

Troubleshooting

Why is my API key rejected?

Copy the key directly from the Composio dashboard. Atomic Agent requires ASCII characters because it sends the key in an HTTP header. Remove any extra characters introduced when copying.

Why are Composio tools unavailable after saving a key?

Check that you use Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later and that Composio is enabled in your configuration. A "composio": { "enabled": false } setting disables the integration while keeping the saved key on disk.

Does Composio have a free plan?

The Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month. Composio-managed OAuth apps have a lower included allowance. See Composio pricing for the current limits that apply to your connection.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Zenrows action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get ZenRows API Usage Statistics

This tool retrieves the current API usage statistics and limits for your ZenRows account.

Get Detailed Concurrency Status

This tool provides detailed information about the current concurrency status and limits of your ZenRows account by making a request to the API and analyzing the response headers.

Get Original Status Code

This tool retrieves the original HTTP status code returned by the target website, which is useful for debugging purposes.

Get PDF from URL

This tool generates a PDF version of the scraped content from a given URL.

Get Plaintext Response

This tool extracts plain text content from a webpage using the ZenRows API.

Get Real Estate Property Data

A specialized tool for extracting structured data from real estate platforms like Zillow and Idealista.

Get Response with Compression

A tool to fetch content from a URL using the ZenRows API with compression enabled to optimize bandwidth usage and improve performance.

Get response headers

A tool to retrieve and parse response headers from ZenRows API requests.

Get Session ID

This tool implements ZenRows' session management functionality to maintain the same IP address across multiple requests for up to 10 minutes.

Get Walmart Product Details

This tool allows users to extract detailed product information from Walmart using ZenRows' specialized e-commerce scraping API.

Scrape url autoparse

The ZENROWS_SCRAPE_URL_AUTOPARSE tool automatically parses and extracts structured data from any given URL using intelligent parsing capabilities.

Scrape URL HTML

This tool extracts raw HTML data from a given URL using ZenRows' Universal Scraper API.

Scrape URL with CSS Selectors

This tool allows users to scrape specific elements from a webpage using CSS selectors.

Screenshot URL

A tool to capture screenshots of web pages using ZenRows API.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Zenrows MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Zenrows tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Zenrows and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Atomic Agent 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 Zenrows tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Zenrows 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 Zenrows data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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