Renderly MCP

Clean web screenshots & content for AI agents. An MCP server that gives your AI agent two tools:

• screenshot — capture a clean PNG/JPEG of any web page. Cookie banners, ads, and chat widgets are auto-removed, so the image is clean for vision models.
• extract — get the clean main article content (Markdown / text / HTML) of a page, boilerplate stripped — ideal for LLMs / RAG.

Real Chromium rendering, so JavaScript-built pages work. Powered by Renderly.

Setup

1. Get a RapidAPI key — subscribe to Renderly (free tier available):

   • Screenshot & PDF API: https://rapidapi.com/xufei547/api/screenshot-pdf-api2
   • Article Extraction API: https://rapidapi.com/xufei547/api/article-extraction-api

   Both share one RapidAPI key (your X-RapidAPI-Key).

2. Add the server to your MCP client.

Claude Desktop / Cursor

Add to your MCP config (claude_desktop_config.json or Cursor's mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "renderly": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/xufei547/renderly-mcp", "renderly-mcp"],
      "env": { "RAPIDAPI_KEY": "your-rapidapi-key" }
    }
  }
}

(uvx ships with uv — it installs and runs the server straight from GitHub, no extra steps. Prefer pip? pip install git+https://github.com/xufei547/renderly-mcp then use "command": "renderly-mcp".)

Tools

Tool	Args	Returns
screenshot	url, full_page, block_cookie_banners, format (png/jpeg), width, height	image
extract	url, format (markdown/text/html), include_tables	clean content

Example prompts

• "Screenshot https://example.com and describe what's on the page."
• "Extract the article at <url> and summarize it."

Configuration (env vars)

Var	Default	Purpose
RAPIDAPI_KEY	—	Required. Your RapidAPI key.
RENDERLY_SCREENSHOT_HOST	screenshot-pdf-api2.p.rapidapi.com	Screenshot API host (see your RapidAPI "Code Snippets").
RENDERLY_EXTRACT_HOST	article-extraction-api.p.rapidapi.com	Extraction API host.
RENDERLY_TIMEOUT	90	Request timeout (seconds).

License

MIT