everything vs crawl4ai-mcp-server

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	everything by modelcontextprotocol	crawl4ai-mcp-server by sadiuysal
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 85
30d uses	—	—
Score	77	46
Official	✓	—
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther	Web ScrapingDeveloper ToolsAI / LLM Tools
Language	TypeScript	Python
Last commit	this month	3 mo ago

everything · Summary

Official MCP test server exercising all protocol features for client builders.

crawl4ai-mcp-server · Summary

A lightweight MCP server exposing Crawl4AI web scraping tools for AI agents with Docker support.

everything · Use cases

Testing MCP client implementations against all protocol features
Learning MCP protocol capabilities through a reference server
Validating client compatibility with different transport methods

crawl4ai-mcp-server · Use cases

Research assistants gathering information from multiple web pages
Content analysis tools extracting structured data from websites
AI agents that need to browse and understand web content as part of their workflow

everything · Install

NPX (recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows, use cmd /c:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "cmd",
      "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "mcp/everything"]
    }
  }
}

Global install

npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything@latest
npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything

crawl4ai-mcp-server · Install

Quick Start with Docker (Recommended)

# Pull pre-built image
docker pull uysalsadi/crawl4ai-mcp-server:latest

# Test the installation
python test-config.py

Manual Installation

git clone https://github.com/uysalsadi/crawl4ai-mcp-server.git
cd crawl4ai-mcp-server
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m playwright install chromium

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to ~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crawl4ai-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run", "--rm", "-i",
        "--volume", "/tmp/crawl4ai-crawls:/app/crawls",
        "uysalsadi/crawl4ai-mcp-server:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CRAWL4AI_MCP_LOG": "INFO"
      }
    }
  }
}

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