How to connect Zenrows 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 Zenrows account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to download a PDF of this news article, extract plain text from the given webpage, get latest property data from Zillow, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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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

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 Zenrows account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to download a PDF of this news article, extract plain text from the given webpage, get latest property data from Zillow, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Zenrows 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 Zenrows account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

"Download a PDF of this news article"
"Extract plain text from the given webpage"
"Get latest property data from Zillow"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Zenrows 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 Zenrows through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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.

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.

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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. 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 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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