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| Evidence field | Scrapfly MCPShortlist candidate | Hugging Face MCPMCP100 Recommended |
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| Provenance | ||
| Provenance details | First-party MCP Scrapfly · Publisher source ↗ | First-party MCP Hugging Face · Publisher source ↗ |
| Maintenance | ||
| Maintenance details | Repo: Not documented Package: Not documented | Repo: Sep 23, 2026 Package: Not documented |
| Popularity evidence | ||
| GitHub stars | 14 GitHub stars · checked 2026-10-20 | 296 GitHub stars · checked 2026-09-24T04:14:16.295000Z |
| Package downloads / 30 days | 511 package downloads / 30 days · checked 2026-10-20 | No reliable download data |
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| Client coverage details | Not documented | Claude Code✓ Streamable HTTP Claude Desktop✓ Streamable HTTP Codex✓ Streamable HTTP VS Code✓ Streamable HTTP Cursor✓ Streamable HTTP OpenCode✓ Streamable HTTP |
| Client coverage note | Local stdio runs on your computer. Streamable HTTP connects to a remotely hosted MCP server. | |
| Access and data | ||
| Authentication | OAuth2, Authorization header/API key, or query-parameter API key. Scrapfly recommends OAuth2 for production and documents zero API-key exposure plus token rotation for OAuth2. | The hosted server supports the current documented Hugging Face OAuth or bearer-token paths. Tool advertisement or discovery configuration is not a server-side authorization boundary for a caller that already knows a tool name; actual authority remains bounded by the authenticated Hugging Face account and token permissions. |
| Cost | Scrapfly has a free allowance/credits and paid usage plans; scraping/proxy/browser operations consume normal Scrapfly credits according to the service plan. | Hub search and the open-source server have no separately documented MCP fee. Hugging Face Jobs, sandboxes, inference, storage, hardware-backed Spaces, and the AI client can incur normal account charges. |
| Permissions | The MCP grants web scraping/screenshot/account capabilities associated with the authenticated Scrapfly account. OAuth2 supports per-user authentication. | Base tools search and navigate Hugging Face Hub resources and documentation. Optional tools can create and write repositories, manage sandbox files, run or schedule Jobs, and invoke selected or dynamically discovered community Spaces, bounded by the authenticated Hugging Face token and configured tool set. |
| Data handling | Not documented in the reviewed sources. The reviewed Scrapfly MCP docs do not state a specific MCP retention/training policy for scraped content or prompts. | Queries and results pass through Hugging Face's hosted MCP service. Community Space calls send their arguments to the selected Space and return its outputs to the client. Jobs and sandboxes can process files and compute inputs on Hugging Face infrastructure. |
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| Risk context | The MCP can retrieve content from arbitrary websites and use anti-bot/proxy capabilities. Usage can implicate site terms, privacy requirements, robots/access controls, copyrighted content, and account/API costs. | Begin with search-only tools and a least-privilege token. Disable dynamic Spaces, repository writes, Jobs, and sandboxes unless separately approved; review every community Space as third-party code and never send secrets or regulated data. This documentary review does not claim MCP100 execution testing. |
| Evidence date | ||
| Editorial review | 2026-10-19 | 2026-07-24 |
| Candidate evidence | 2026-10-20 | 2026-09-24T04:25:05.554391Z |
Popularity, maintenance, fit, permissions, and client support are independent evidence fields.
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