# How to integrate Zenrows MCP with Claude Code ```json { "title": "How to integrate Zenrows MCP with Claude Code", "toolkit": "Zenrows", "toolkit_slug": "zenrows", "framework": "Claude Code", "framework_slug": "claude-code", "url": "https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/claude-code", "markdown_url": "https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/claude-code.md", "updated_at": "2026-05-06T08:34:34.376Z" } ``` ## Introduction Manage your Zenrows directly from Claude Code with zero worries about OAuth hassles, API-breaking issues, or reliability and security concerns. You can do this in two different ways: - Via [Composio Connect](https://dashboard.composio.dev/login?utm_source=toolkits&utm_medium=framework_template&utm_campaign=claude-code&utm_content=composio_connect&next=%2F~%2Forg%2Fconnect%2Fclients%2Fclaude-code) - Direct and easiest approach - Via [Composio SDK](https://docs.composio.dev/docs?utm_source=toolkits&utm_medium=framework_template&utm_campaign=claude-code&utm_content=composio_sdk) - Programmatic approach with more control ## Also integrate Zenrows with - [OpenAI Agents SDK](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/open-ai-agents-sdk) - [Claude Agent SDK](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/claude-agents-sdk) - [Claude Cowork](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/claude-cowork) - [Codex](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/codex) - [OpenClaw](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/openclaw) - [Hermes](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/hermes-agent) - [CLI](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/cli) - [Google ADK](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/google-adk) - [LangChain](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/langchain) - [Vercel AI SDK](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/ai-sdk) - [Mastra AI](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/mastra-ai) - [LlamaIndex](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/llama-index) - [CrewAI](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/crew-ai) ## TL;DR - Only one MCP URL to connect multiple apps with Claude Code with zero auth hassles. - Programmatic tool calling allows LLMs to write its code in a remote workbench to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling. - Handling Large tool responses out of LLM context to minimize context rot. - Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so LLMs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need. ## Connect Zenrows to Claude Code ### Connecting Zenrows to Claude Code using Composio 1. Add the Composio MCP to Claude ```bash claude mcp add --scope user --transport http composio https://connect.composio.dev/mcp ``` ## What is Claude Code? Claude Code is Anthropic's command line developer tool that lets you use Claude directly inside your terminal. Instead of switching between your editor, browser, and chat, you can stay in your project folder and ask Claude to help you build, debug, refactor, and understand code right where you're working. Key features include: - Terminal-Native Experience: Work with Claude directly in your command line without switching contexts - MCP Support: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol servers to extend Claude's capabilities - Project Context: Claude understands your project structure and can read, write, and modify files - Interactive Development: Ask questions, debug code, and get help in real-time while coding - Multi-Platform: Works on macOS, Linux, WSL, and Windows ## 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. ## Supported Tools | Tool slug | Name | Description | |---|---|---| | `ZENROWS_GET_API_USAGE` | Get ZenRows API Usage Statistics | This tool retrieves the current api usage statistics and limits for your zenrows account. it is an independent action that requires no additional parameters besides authentication. it is useful for monitoring api usage and ensuring that the account has sufficient remaining credits. | | `ZENROWS_GET_CONCURRENCY_STATUS` | Get Concurrency Status | This tool retrieves the current concurrency status of your zenrows api usage. it reports the maximum number of concurrent requests allowed by your plan and the number of available concurrent request slots. it is useful for monitoring api usage, implementing rate limiting, debugging request issues, and capacity planning. | | `ZENROWS_GET_CONCURRENCY_STATUS_DETAILED` | 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. it is essential for monitoring real-time api usage, managing concurrent requests, and ensuring optimal performance within plan limits. | | `ZENROWS_GET_ORIGINAL_STATUS` | Get Original Status Code | This tool retrieves the original http status code returned by the target website, which is useful for debugging purposes. it returns the original status code in the response headers under 'x-zenrows-original-status'. it can also provide the full response body and error messages, helping with debugging scraping issues, verifying website responses, monitoring availability, and understanding website behavior. | | `ZENROWS_GET_PDF_FROM_URL` | Get PDF from URL | This tool generates a pdf version of the scraped content from a given url. it requires javascript rendering to be enabled and sets the response type to pdf, making it ideal for archiving web pages, creating documentation, generating reports, or saving articles for offline reading. | | `ZENROWS_GET_PLAINTEXT` | Get Plaintext Response | This tool extracts plain text content from a webpage using the zenrows api. by using the response type=plaintext parameter, it strips html tags and formats the content into clean, plain text. it's useful for extracting readable content for nlp, summarization, or archiving purposes. | | `ZENROWS_GET_REAL_ESTATE_DATA` | Get Real Estate Property Data | A specialized tool for extracting structured data from real estate platforms like zillow and idealista. it leverages zenrows' real estate api to fetch comprehensive property information, including property details, location information, features, seller details, and more, in a structured format. | | `ZENROWS_GET_RESPONSE_COMPRESSION` | 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. it supports gzip, deflate, and br compression encodings, handles decompression automatically, and provides compression statistics along with the decompressed content. | | `ZENROWS_GET_RESPONSE_HEADERS` | Get response headers | A tool to retrieve and parse response headers from zenrows api requests. it provides critical metadata such as concurrency limits, available request slots, request cost, unique request id, and final url after redirects, which is essential for monitoring usage, debugging, and optimizing requests. | | `ZENROWS_GET_SESSION_ID` | Get Session ID | This tool implements zenrows' session management functionality to maintain the same ip address across multiple requests for up to 10 minutes. it supports parameters like url, session id, and premium proxy, and is useful for maintaining consistent scraping sessions, simulating real user behavior, and avoiding detection by anti-bot systems. | | `ZENROWS_GET_WALMART_PRODUCT` | Get Walmart Product Details | This tool allows users to extract detailed product information from walmart using zenrows' specialized e-commerce scraping api. it provides structured data for walmart products including product details, pricing, availability, and more. | | `ZENROWS_SCRAPE_URL` | Scrape url | Scrape and extract data from a specified url. this action allows you to collect and process web data effortlessly using the zenrows api. | | `ZENROWS_SCRAPE_URL_AUTOPARSE` | Scrape url autoparse | The zenrows scrape url autoparse tool automatically parses and extracts structured data from any given url using intelligent parsing capabilities. it eliminates the need for manual css selectors by auto-identifying relevant content on web pages, returning data such as titles, main content, meta descriptions, images, links, prices, and contact information in a structured json format. | | `ZENROWS_SCRAPE_URL_HTML` | Scrape URL HTML | This tool extracts raw html data from a given url using zenrows' universal scraper api. it focuses on retrieving the pure html content of the webpage without automatic parsing or data extraction. it supports parameters such as js render for enabling javascript rendering, custom headers for custom http headers, premium proxy for using premium proxies, and session id for maintaining the same ip across multiple requests. | | `ZENROWS_SCRAPE_WITH_CSS_SELECTORS` | Scrape URL with CSS Selectors | This tool allows users to scrape specific elements from a webpage using css selectors. it is particularly useful for targeted data extraction rather than retrieving the entire page content. the endpoint takes a url and a json object containing css selectors for parsing elements such as titles, links, images, and prices, and includes optional parameters like using premium proxies, specifying response wait times, and custom headers among others. | | `ZENROWS_SCREENSHOT_URL` | Screenshot URL | A tool to capture screenshots of web pages using zenrows api. this tool allows you to take screenshots of entire web pages or specific elements, with customizable options for format and quality. | ## Supported Triggers None listed. ## Creating MCP Server - Stand-alone vs Composio SDK The Zenrows MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects Claude Code (and other AI assistants like Claude and Cursor) directly to your Zenrows account. It provides structured and secure access so Claude can perform Zenrows operations on your behalf. With Composio's managed implementation, you don't have to create your own developer app. For production, if you're building an end product, we recommend using your own credentials. The managed server helps you prototype fast and go from 0-1 faster. ## Step-by-step Guide ### 1. Prerequisites Before starting, make sure you have: - Claude Pro, Max, or API billing enabled Anthropic account - Composio API Key - A Zenrows account - Basic knowledge of Python or TypeScript ### 1. Install Claude Code To install Claude Code, use one of the following methods based on your operating system: ```bash # macOS, Linux, WSL curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash # Windows PowerShell irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex # Windows CMD curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.cmd -o install.cmd && install.cmd && del install.cmd ``` ### 2. Set up Claude Code Open a terminal, go to your project folder, and start Claude Code: - Claude Code will open in your terminal - Follow the prompts to sign in with your Anthropic account - Complete the authentication flow - Once authenticated, you can start using Claude Code ```bash cd your-project-folder claude ``` ### 3. Set up environment variables Create a .env file in your project root with the following variables: - COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio (get it from [Composio dashboard](https://dashboard.composio.dev/login?utm_source=toolkits&utm_medium=framework_template&utm_campaign=claude-code&utm_content=api_key&next=%2F~%2Forg%2Fconnect%2Fclients%2Fclaude-code)) - USER_ID identifies the user for session management (use any unique identifier) ```bash COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here USER_ID=your_user_id_here ``` ### 4. Install Composio library No description provided. ```python pip install composio-core python-dotenv ``` ```typescript npm install @composio/core dotenv ``` ### 5. Generate Composio MCP URL No description provided. ```python import os from composio import Composio from dotenv import load_dotenv load_dotenv() COMPOSIO_API_KEY = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY") USER_ID = os.getenv("USER_ID") composio_client = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY) composio_session = composio_client.create( user_id=USER_ID, toolkits=["zenrows"], ) COMPOSIO_MCP_URL = composio_session.mcp.url print(f"MCP URL: {COMPOSIO_MCP_URL}") print(f"\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:") print(f'claude mcp add --transport http zenrows-composio "{COMPOSIO_MCP_URL}" --headers "X-API-Key:{COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"') ``` ```typescript import 'dotenv/config'; import { Composio } from '@composio/core'; const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env; if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) { throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env'); } const composioClient = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY }); const composioSession = await composioClient.create(USER_ID, { toolkits: ['zenrows'], }); const composioMcpUrl = composioSession?.mcp.url; console.log(`MCP URL: ${composioMcpUrl}`); console.log(`\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:`); console.log(`claude mcp add --transport http zenrows-composio "${composioMcpUrl}" --headers "X-API-Key:${COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"`); ``` ### 6. Run the script and copy the MCP URL No description provided. ```python python generate_mcp_url.py ``` ```typescript node --loader ts-node/esm generate_mcp_url.ts # or if using tsx tsx generate_mcp_url.ts ``` ### 7. Add Zenrows MCP to Claude Code In your terminal, add the MCP server using the command from the previous step. The command format is: - claude mcp add registers a new MCP server with Claude Code - --transport http specifies that this is an HTTP-based MCP server - The server name (zenrows-composio) is how you'll reference it - The URL points to your Composio Tool Router session - --headers includes your Composio API key for authentication After running the command, close the current Claude Code session and start a new one for the changes to take effect. ```bash claude mcp add --transport http zenrows-composio "YOUR_MCP_URL_HERE" --headers "X-API-Key:YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY" # Then restart Claude Code exit claude ``` ### 8. Verify the installation Check that your Zenrows MCP server is properly configured. - This command lists all MCP servers registered with Claude Code - You should see your zenrows-composio entry in the list - This confirms that Claude Code can now access Zenrows tools If everything is wired up, you should see your zenrows-composio entry listed: ```bash claude mcp list ``` ### 9. Authenticate Zenrows The first time you try to use Zenrows tools, you'll be prompted to authenticate. - Claude Code will detect that you need to authenticate with Zenrows - It will show you an authentication link - Open the link in your browser (or copy/paste it) - Complete the Zenrows authorization flow - Return to the terminal and start using Zenrows through Claude Code Once authenticated, you can ask Claude Code to perform Zenrows operations in natural language. For example: - "Download a PDF of this news article" - "Extract plain text from the given webpage" - "Get latest property data from Zillow" ## Complete Code ```python import os from composio import Composio from dotenv import load_dotenv load_dotenv() COMPOSIO_API_KEY = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY") USER_ID = os.getenv("USER_ID") composio_client = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY) composio_session = composio_client.create( user_id=USER_ID, toolkits=["zenrows"], ) COMPOSIO_MCP_URL = composio_session.mcp.url print(f"MCP URL: {COMPOSIO_MCP_URL}") print(f"\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:") print(f'claude mcp add --transport http zenrows-composio "{COMPOSIO_MCP_URL}" --headers "X-API-Key:{COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"') ``` ```typescript import 'dotenv/config'; import { Composio } from '@composio/core'; const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env; if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) { throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env'); } const composioClient = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY }); const composioSession = await composioClient.create(USER_ID, { toolkits: ['zenrows'], }); const composioMcpUrl = composioSession?.mcp.url; console.log(`MCP URL: ${composioMcpUrl}`); console.log(`\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:`); console.log(`claude mcp add --transport http zenrows-composio "${composioMcpUrl}" --headers "X-API-Key:${COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"`); ``` ## Conclusion You've successfully integrated Zenrows with Claude Code using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Zenrows directly from your terminal using natural language commands. Key features of this setup: - Terminal-native experience without switching contexts - Natural language commands for Zenrows operations - Secure authentication through Composio's managed MCP - Tool Router for dynamic tool discovery and execution Next steps: - Try asking Claude Code to perform various Zenrows operations - Add more toolkits to your Tool Router session for multi-app workflows - Integrate this setup into your development workflow for increased productivity You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom workflows, or building automation scripts that leverage Claude Code's capabilities. ## How to build Zenrows MCP Agent with another framework - [OpenAI Agents SDK](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/open-ai-agents-sdk) - [Claude Agent SDK](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/claude-agents-sdk) - [Claude Cowork](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/claude-cowork) - [Codex](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/codex) - [OpenClaw](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/openclaw) - [Hermes](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/hermes-agent) - [CLI](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/cli) - [Google ADK](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/google-adk) - [LangChain](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/langchain) - [Vercel AI SDK](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/ai-sdk) - [Mastra AI](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/mastra-ai) - [LlamaIndex](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/llama-index) - [CrewAI](https://composio.dev/toolkits/zenrows/framework/crew-ai) ## Related Toolkits - [Supabase](https://composio.dev/toolkits/supabase) - Supabase is an open-source backend platform offering scalable Postgres databases, authentication, storage, and real-time APIs. 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It empowers teams to automate and analyze large-scale tests with ease. - [Blocknative](https://composio.dev/toolkits/blocknative) - Blocknative delivers real-time mempool monitoring and transaction management for public blockchains. Instantly track pending transactions and optimize blockchain interactions with live data. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Zenrows MCP? 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. ### Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Code? Yes, you can. Claude Code 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. ### Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Zenrows while using Tool Router? 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. ### 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 Zenrows data and credentials are handled as safely as possible. --- [See all toolkits](https://composio.dev/toolkits) · [Composio docs](https://docs.composio.dev/llms.txt)