search-web

pure.md▌

by puremd

pure.md provides unblock-url extraction and search-web features for reliable info, scrape bing data, and supports scrape

Enables AI access to web content in clean markdown format through unblock-url extraction and search-web capabilities, bypassing anti-bot measures for reliable information retrieval.

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★ 57

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Works anonymously without API keyBypasses anti-bot measuresGlobal caching for performance

best for

/ AI agents needing reliable web content access
/ Developers building web scraping tools
/ Researchers extracting data from protected sites

capabilities

/ Extract markdown from any web URL without bot blocking
/ Search the web and get results in markdown format
/ Convert HTML, PDFs, and images to markdown
/ Render JavaScript SPAs into markdown content

what it does

Converts web pages and documents into clean markdown format through a web service that bypasses bot detection and renders JavaScript content.

about

pure.md is an official MCP server published by puremd that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. pure.md provides unblock-url extraction and search-web features for reliable info, scrape bing data, and supports scrape It is categorized under search web.

how to install

You can install pure.md in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.

license

MIT

pure.md is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.

readme

pure.md MCP server

Welcome to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for pure.md.

pure.md lets your scripts, APIs, apps, agents, etc reliably access web content in markdown format -- simply prefix any URL with pure.md/. It avoids bot detection and renders JavaScript for SPAs, and can convert HTML, PDFs, images, and more into pure markdown. Like a CDN for markdown content, it globally caches responses for future requests to the same resource, relieving stress on origin web servers.

Without puremd-mcp, local agents may fail to fetch web content. puremd-mcp teaches MCP clients like Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Desktop how to adopt the functionality of pure.md, giving them web unblocking and searching capabilities.

puremd-mcp comes with two tools:

unblock-url - Extract markdown from web pages without getting blocked
search-web - Search the web for a query and concatenate results into markdown

The Model Context Protocol, developed by Anthropic, is an open standard that enables AI systems to seamlessly interact with an ecosystem of tooling. With it, MCP clients like Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Desktop can learn how to use a variety of APIs and other functionality.

Authentication

Generating an API key is an optional step that unlocks higher rate limits. If you'd like to use the pure.md MCP server anonymously, simply set your PUREMD_API_KEY value to empty string ("").

Sign up for a new account at pure.md — it's free to sign up!
In the dashboard, generate a new API token
Copy the token, and use it for the PUREMD_API_KEY value in your MCP client's configuration file (see below)

Client configuration

Cursor

Add the following to your ~/.cursor/mcp.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pure.md": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "puremd-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PUREMD_API_KEY": "<TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add the following to your ./codeium/windsurf/model_config.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pure.md": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "puremd-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PUREMD_API_KEY": "<TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Add the following to your ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pure.md": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "puremd-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PUREMD_API_KEY": "<TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Installing via Smithery

To install puremd-mcp for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @puremd/puremd-mcp --client claude