shadow-crawl
MCP serverWeb & browsingLets your agent scrape websites that block bots by routing around defenses like Cloudflare and DataDome.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
Needs your own shadow-crawl account. You sign in to it and approve access when you connect.
Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
Then ask your AI: use shadow-crawl
About this server
Stealth scraping & search. Bypasses Cloudflare, DataDome & LinkedIn via Cyborg HITL approach.
Install shadow-crawl
The server’s own address, for the clients that take one directly. Or connect ahel onceand every client you use reads it from one address, with the account kept on ahel rather than in each client’s config.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user shadow-crawl 'https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.tools'Run it once in your project, then open /mcp to approve any sign-in the server asks for.
Claude Desktop
https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.toolsAdd a custom connector in Settings, paste this address, and approve the sign-in.
Cursor
cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=shadow-crawl&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3NoYWRvd2NyYXdsLS1kZXZzaGVyby5ydW4udG9vbHMifQ==Open the link and Cursor adds the server at that address.
ChatGPT
https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.toolsIn Settings, enable Developer mode, create an MCP app, and paste this address. Your plan and workspace must allow custom apps.
Codex
codex mcp add shadow-crawl --url 'https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.tools'Run it once, then sign in with codex mcp login shadow-crawl if the server asks for an account.
From the project's README
As published by devshero/shadowcrawl in README.md. This repository publishes several servers, so only the opening is shown here.
Overview
CortexScout provides a single, self-hostable Rust binary that exposes search, extraction, and stateful browser automation capabilities over MCP (stdio) and an optional HTTP server. Output formats are structured and optimized for downstream LLM use.
Shortened here. Read the whole README on GitHub.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 71
- Forks
- 9
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Delivery
- shadow-crawl MCP server → your ahel connector (mcp.ahel.ai) → your AI.
- Item type
- mcp-server
- Key
io-github-devshero-shadow-crawl- Source
- github.com/devshero/shadowcrawl
- Hosted endpoint
https://shadowcrawl--devshero.run.tools