time vs crawl4ai-mcp-server

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

time · Summary

A comprehensive MCP server providing time and timezone conversion tools with automatic system timezone detection.

crawl4ai-mcp-server · Summary

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

time · Use cases

Assisting with international meeting scheduling across time zones
Providing real-time time information for location-based queries
Enabling time conversion for travel planning and itineraries

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

time · Install

Installation Options

**Using uv (recommended):**

uvx mcp-server-time

**Using PIP:**

pip install mcp-server-time
python -m mcp_server_time

**Configure for Claude Desktop:**

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "time": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-server-time"]
    }
  }
}

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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