🌐 InfinityScrape MCP: World-Class Web Scraping, Dynamic SPA Rendering & 33-Tool OSINT Intelligence Suite

InfinityScrape MCP is a standalone, production-grade Model Context Protocol (MCP) server engineered to provide AI models (Open WebUI, Claude 3.7, DeepSeek-R1/V3, Antigravity AI, Cursor, LM Studio) with unlimited, high-speed, anti-bot resilient web scraping, dynamic SPA rendering, zero-selector contact/pricing/FAQ extraction, remote Word/Excel document streaming, XML sitemap crawling, DuckDuckGo search, Wayback Machine time-travel, instant YouTube transcription, and precision OSINT / GEOINT location intelligence.

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📑 Table of Contents

• 🌟 Why InfinityScrape MCP?
• ⚡ Competitive Comparison
• 🏗️ Architectural Overview
• 🚀 Quick Start & 1-Click Installation
• 🔌 AI Client Integration (Open WebUI, Claude, Cursor)
• 🛠️ Complete 33-Tool Reference Catalog
  • 1. Anti-Bot Web Scraping, Dynamic SPAs & Crawlers (6 Tools)
  • 2. Real-Time Web Search, Research & Archive OSINT (4 Tools)
  • 3. Media, Document & RAG Extraction (4 Tools)
  • 4. Deep Public OSINT & Entity Reconnaissance (4 Tools)
  • 5. Infrastructure, Domain & Network Reconnaissance (5 Tools)
  • 6. Precision GEOINT & Location Intelligence (2 Tools)
  • 7. Zero-Selector Semantics, Office Streaming & Change Radar (8 Tools)
• 💻 Command-Line Interface (CLI)
• 🧪 Running Automated Tests
• 📄 License & Authors

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🌟 Why InfinityScrape MCP?

Standard web scrapers often fail on modern websites due to Cloudflare challenges, heavy client-side JavaScript rendering, intrusive cookie consent modals, and rate limits. InfinityScrape solves these problems out-of-the-box:

1. Dual-Engine Scraping Architecture:
   • Fast TLS Engine (primp + httpx): Mimics real Chrome/Safari browser TLS/JA3 fingerprints and HTTP/2 headers to bypass Cloudflare and Akamai challenges in <100ms.
   • Dynamic Headless Browser (Playwright Chromium): Renders complex SPAs (React, Vue, Next.js, Angular), performs infinite scrolling, clicks elements, and executes custom JavaScript.
2. Singleton BrowserPool (~1.8s SPA Renders):
   • Persistent Chromium process with ephemeral context isolation that completely eliminates cold-start latency and avoids memory leaks.
3. Military-Grade Anti-Bot Evasions (100% Undetectable):
   • Cleanly deletes navigator.webdriver from prototype (get: () => undefined).
   • Authentic WebGL Vendor & Renderer spoofing (Google Inc. (NVIDIA) & NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080).
   • Hardware concurrency (8 cores), device memory (8GB), and authentic window.chrome runtime emulation.
   • Realistic Chrome PDF Viewer plugins and NaCl mimeTypes.
4. 3-Tier Multi-Engine Search Failover (Anti-429 Resilience):
   • Cascades automatically from DuckDuckGo API ➡️ DuckDuckGo HTML Lite ➡️ Bing HTML Fallback. Zero API keys, zero 429 rate-limits.
5. Cloudflare Turnstile & Interstitial Auto-Solver:
   • Detects Turnstile challenge iframes and executes automated coordinate jitter to bypass interstitials.
6. Network-Level Ad & Tracker Elimination:
   • Intercepts and aborts network calls to 35+ ad networks and tracking scripts (doubleclick, criteo, outbrain, google-analytics) before they download, cutting page load time by ~300% and memory usage by 70%.
   • Automatically detects and decomposes OneTrust, Cookiebot, and sticky overlay popups.
7. Wayback Machine Time-Travel:
   • Query internet archive history for any URL across custom date ranges to track competitor pricing changes, deleted pages, and historical copy.
8. Zero-GPU Instant YouTube Transcriber:
   • Extracts complete video/shorts/live transcripts with timestamps ([MM:SS]) in <300ms directly via HTTP streams without downloading video or requiring local GPU Whisper models.
9. Deep Recursive Documentation Crawler:
   • Asynchronous Breadth-First-Search (BFS) crawler with domain locking and path prefix filtering to aggregate entire documentation trees into unified Markdown.
10. State-of-the-Art Public OSINT & GEOINT Reconnaissance:
    • Multi-Signal Confidence Scoring (0% - 100%): Evaluates Name + City + Street + PIN + Org + Role correlation to rank discovered dossiers.
    • 25+ Global Platform Scanners: Scans GitHub, GitLab, StackOverflow, Kaggle, HuggingFace, LeetCode, Codeforces, Dev.to, Medium, Substack, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Reddit, etc.
    • OpenStreetMap GEOINT: Resolves global addresses down to street/postcode level with GPS coordinates and administrative boundaries.
11. SQLite Persistent Caching Layer:
    • In-memory and SQLite-backed local cache for instant 0ms responses on repeat lookups with configurable TTL.

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⚡ Competitive Comparison

Feature / Capability	Standard MCP Scrapers	Cloud Scraping APIs	InfinityScrape MCP
Cost & API Keys	Free (Basic)	Paid ($20 - $200/mo)	100% Free / Zero API Keys
Cloudflare / Akamai TLS Bypass	❌ Fails / 403	✅ Yes	✅ Built-in (primp JA3)
Dynamic SPAs & Infinite Scroll	❌ Limited	✅ Yes	✅ Built-in (playwright)
Real-Time Web Search & Dorking	❌ No	⚠️ Extra Cost	✅ Built-in (DuckDuckGo & Dorks)
Wayback Historical Snapshots	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Built-in (Archive API)
Network-Level Ad & Popup Stripping	❌ No	⚠️ Partial	✅ Built-in (35+ domains)
Zero-GPU YouTube Transcripts	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Built-in (<300ms)
Online PDF Page-by-Page Parser	❌ No	⚠️ Extra Cost	✅ Built-in (pypdf)
Deep Documentation Crawler	❌ No	⚠️ Extra Cost	✅ Built-in (Async BFS)
25+ Platform OSINT & Geocoding	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Built-in (0-100% Confidence)
OpenAPI 3.1.0 REST Bridge (Port 8000)	❌ No	⚠️ Proprietary	✅ Built-in (FastAPI /docs)

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🏗️ Architectural Overview

                      ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                      │    AI Clients: Open WebUI / Claude Desktop / Cursor     │
                      └────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                                                   │
                  ┌────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┐
                  │                                                                 │
                  ▼                                                                 ▼
      [OpenAPI Bridge (Port 8000)]                                     [Stdio JSON-RPC 2.0 Server]
      FastAPI /docs & /openapi.json                                             (server.py)
                  │                                                                 │
                  └────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                                                   │
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            ┌──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
            ▼                      ▼                      ▼                      ▼
     [Fast TLS Engine]     [Playwright Engine]     [OSINT / GEOINT]     [Search & Media]
     • primp JA3/TLS       • Stealth Chromium      • 25+ Platform       • DuckDuckGo Search
     • HTTP/2 Headers      • Ad/Tracker Blocker      Scanners           • Wayback Snapshots
     • <100ms Execution    • Infinite Scroll       • OpenStreetMap      • YouTube (<300ms)
                           • Auto-Dismiss CMPs     • Reverse Geocoding  • Remote PDF Parser
                                                   • Match Confidence
                                                   │
                                                   ▼
                                    ┌──────────────────────────────┐
                                    │ SQLite Caching Layer (0ms)   │
                                    └──────────────────────────────┘

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🚀 Quick Start & 1-Click Installation

1. Automated Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/virajverse/infinity-scraper.git
cd infinity-scraper

# Create virtual environment & install
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -e .
playwright install chromium

2. Launch FastAPI Bridge (Port 8000)

python openapi_bridge.py

• Interactive Swagger Docs: http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs
• OpenAPI 3.1.0 Schema: http://127.0.0.1:8000/openapi.json

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🔌 AI Client Integration

1. Open WebUI (FastAPI Bridge on Port 8000)

1. Ensure the bridge is running (python openapi_bridge.py).
2. In Open WebUI, navigate to Workspace -> Tools -> Add Tool.
3. Import from URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/openapi.json or use infinity_scraper_suite.
4. All 25 tools are instantly accessible to your agents!

2. Antigravity AI / Claude Desktop (Native Stdio)

Add to your mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "infinity-scraper": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "infinity_scraper.server"],
      "env": {
        "PYTHONUNBUFFERED": "1"
      }
    }
  }
}

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🛠️ Complete 33-Tool Reference Catalog

1. Anti-Bot Web Scraping, Dynamic SPAs & Crawlers (6 Tools)

Tool	Description
scrape_url	Production-grade scraping into clean, ad-free Markdown with auto-engine switching (Fast TLS -> Playwright Chromium fallback). Automatically surfaces anti-bot challenge advisories for agent escalation.
scrape_dynamic	Dynamic SPA rendering via Singleton Playwright BrowserPool (~1.8s) with Cloudflare Turnstile auto-bypass and infinite scroll.
extract_schema	Zero-selector semantic extraction mapping custom JSON schemas with auto JSON-LD & OpenGraph meta fallback.
deep_crawl	Asynchronous recursive BFS documentation crawler with depth limits, domain locking, and path prefix filters.
extract_structured	Extracts HTML tables into structured Markdown/JSON datasets and aggregates rich page metadata.
scrape_batch	High-throughput concurrent scraping of multiple URLs with configurable concurrency limits.

2. Real-Time Web Search, Research & Archive OSINT (4 Tools)

Tool	Description
search_web	3-tier resilient real-time web search (DDGS API ➡️ DDG HTML Lite ➡️ Bing HTML Fallback) without API keys or 429 rate limits.
search_and_scrape	End-to-end autonomous web research pipeline: executes queries and scrapes top results into a synthesized research report.
osint_search	Advanced boolean dorking engine supporting site:, filetype:, in_title:, and negative keyword exclusions.
osint_wayback_time_machine	Queries historical archive snapshots, CDX timestamps, and past versions of deleted or updated web pages.

3. Media, Document & RAG Extraction (4 Tools)

Tool	Description
extract_pdf	Streams remote online PDF files page-by-page via TLS into clean Markdown text without local disk bloat.
get_youtube_transcript	Zero-GPU, sub-300ms transcript extraction with timestamps ([MM:SS]) from YouTube videos, shorts, and live streams.
extract_image_exif	Extracts camera hardware specifications, timestamps, and GPS coordinates with direct Google Maps navigation links.
optimize_rag_chunks	Semantic text and Markdown chunker with token boundary optimization for LLM RAG pipelines and vector stores.

4. Deep Public OSINT & Entity Reconnaissance (4 Tools)

Tool	Description
osint_deep_public_recon	Cross-correlates developer platforms, academic registries, and corporate filings into an entity intelligence dossier.
osint_username_check	Scans 25+ global developer, creator, and tech platforms to map digital handles and alias footprints.
extract_reddit_thread_tool	Extracts Reddit discussions, original post content, and nested comment trees into structured Markdown.
extract_rss_feed_tool	Ingests RSS and Atom feeds for real-time news tracking, competitor updates, and blog monitoring.

5. Infrastructure, Domain & Network Reconnaissance (5 Tools)

Tool	Description
osint_domain_recon	Audits domain WHOIS, RDAP records, registrar info, and SSL/TLS certificate chains.
osint_tech_stack	Deeply fingerprints website frontend frameworks, backend stacks, CDNs, and analytics trackers.
osint_ip_lookup	Gathers IP geolocation, Autonomous System Number (ASN), ISP, and network routing data.
osint_subdomain_enumeration	Discovers hidden subdomains, internal staging servers, and API routes via Certificate Transparency logs (crt.sh).
osint_dns_audit	Resolves and audits DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, CNAME) including mail security SPF/DKIM verification.

6. Precision GEOINT & Location Intelligence (2 Tools)

Tool	Description
osint_geoint_lookup	Forward geocoding of landmarks, streets, and addresses via OpenStreetMap/Nominatim down to postal code and GPS coordinates.
osint_location_entity_search	Hierarchical entity location dorking correlating business entities with city, street, and postal landmarks.

7. Zero-Selector Semantics, Office Streaming & Change Radar (8 Tools)

Tool	Description
extract_contacts	Zero-selector extraction of verified emails, phone numbers, WhatsApp, GSTIN/CIN/EIN, social profiles, and postal codes.

| extract_pricing_table | Automatically identifies SaaS pricing cards, tier amounts ($/mo, $/yr, INR), billing cycles, feature matrices, and CTA buttons. | | extract_faqs | Heuristic and schema-based FAQ extractor pulling question-and-answer pairs from JSON-LD, <details>, and accordions. | | crawl_sitemap | High-speed XML sitemap parser with gzip decompression (.xml.gz) and recursive child sitemap index traversal. | | discover_sitemaps | Autonomously uncovers all active XML sitemaps for any domain via robots.txt inspection and standard endpoint probing. | | extract_docx_document | Streams remote online or local Word (.docx) documents into clean Markdown with full table matrices (zero local bloat). | | extract_xlsx_spreadsheet| Streams online or local Excel (.xlsx) spreadsheets, converting all worksheets into clean Markdown tables and JSON records. | | compare_page_diff | Temporal page diff & change radar detecting price adjustments, discontinued tiers, new features, and content similarity %. |

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💻 Command-Line Interface (CLI)

InfinityScrape provides a built-in CLI (infinity-scraper-cli or python -m infinity_scraper.cli) for rapid terminal verification:

# 1. Scrape a webpage into clean Markdown (Fast TLS or Playwright with --browser)
infinity-scraper-cli scrape "https://news.ycombinator.com"
infinity-scraper-cli scrape "https://example.com/spa" --browser --scroll 2

# 2. Live Web Search & Instant Scraping
infinity-scraper-cli search "Generative Engine Optimization 2026" --max 5
infinity-scraper-cli search "Agentic Workflows" --max 3 --scrape

# 3. Recursive Documentation Tree Crawler
infinity-scraper-cli crawl "https://modelcontextprotocol.io" --pages 5 --depth 2

# 4. Stream & Extract Remote PDF Document
infinity-scraper-cli pdf "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf" --pages 10

# Note: All 25 tools (YouTube transcripts, OSINT, GEOINT, Wayback) are directly accessible via:
# - MCP Stdio: `python -m infinity_scraper.server`
# - OpenAPI Bridge (Port 8000): `http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs`

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🧪 Running Automated Tests

# Run unit and integration tests
pytest tests/ -v

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📄 License & Authors

• Author: Viraj
• License: MIT License. See LICENSE for details.