Urlbox Full Page Screenshots

An MCP server for the Urlbox Screenshot API. It enables your client to take screenshots, generate PDFs, extract HTML/markdown, and more from websites.

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Urlbox MCP Server

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MCP server for the Urlbox Screenshot API. Enables your client to take screenshots, generate PDFs, extract HTML/markdown, and more from websites.

Visit Urlbox for more information, and have a read of our docs or chat with your LLM post install to get a good understanding of its options and capabilities.

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Setup

  1. Install dependencies and build:

    npm install
npm run build

  2. Get Urlbox API credentials:

  3. Set environment variables:

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "screenshot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@urlbox/screenshot-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SECRET_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Usage

The server provides a render tool that can:

  • Take screenshots in multiple formats (PNG, PDF, MP4 and more)
  • Convert pages to HTML, markdown
  • Extract metadata and cookies
  • Save files locally to your downloads with store_renders: true

Claude will automatically use this when you ask it to screenshot websites or convert web content.

Useful prompts

Take a clean screenshot without ads or cookie banners:

Take a screenshot of https://example.com but block ads and hide cookie banners

Screenshot and save side renders like HTML/markdown:

Take a screenshot of https://example.com and also save it as HTML and markdown. Download the result to my computer.

Generate a PDF of the full page:

Convert https://urlbox.com to a PDF and save it to my computer. Make sure to generate a PDF that has an outline and is tagged.

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