Research and scraping tools with official MCP servers
6 research and scraping tools have an official MCP server listed here: Apify, Exa, Firecrawl, Perplexity, Tavily and Wynter. All of them work in Claude or ChatGPT without code, according to the vendors' own docs.
Which research and scraping tools have an official MCP server?
Sorted by confirmed chat-app support, then by name. Categories: AI Research, Scraping & Extraction, Market Research. Open the matrix to filter further.
| Tool | Works in | Access · credits |
|---|---|---|
| Apify Scraping & Extraction |
ClaudeChatGPTClaude CodeCursorCopilot |
Read + writeSome tools use credits |
| Exa AI Research |
ClaudeChatGPTClaude CodeCursor |
Read onlySome tools use credits |
| Firecrawl Scraping & Extraction |
ClaudeChatGPTClaude CodeCursor |
Read + writeEvery call uses credits |
| Wynter Market Research |
ClaudeChatGPTClaude Code |
Read onlyCredits not confirmed |
| Perplexity AI Research |
ClaudeClaude CodeCursor |
Read onlyEvery call uses credits |
| Tavily AI Research |
ClaudeClaude CodeCursor |
Read onlyCredits not confirmed |
What can each one do?
The tools each server exposes, as its vendor's docs describe them.
- Apify (Scraping & Extraction): search-actors, call-actor, rag-web-browser, web-fetch.
- Exa (AI Research): web_search_exa, web_fetch_exa, web_search_advanced_exa (opt-in), agent_run (Exa Agent research, list-building, enrichment).
- Firecrawl (Scraping & Extraction): scrape (incl. JSON structured extraction), search, map, crawl.
- Perplexity (AI Research): perplexity_search, perplexity_ask, perplexity_research, perplexity_reason.
- Tavily (AI Research): tavily_search, tavily_extract, tavily_crawl, tavily_map.
- Wynter (Market Research): Read completed tests (message tests, surveys, preference tests), Questions and verbatim respondent answers, Respondent roster and demographic breakdown, Per-question statistics.
Which recipes use research and scraping tools?
- Research a prospect, then add them to an Instantly campaign (Perplexity + Apollo + Instantly)
- Pre-meeting brief from CRM + web (HubSpot + Perplexity)
- Pre-meeting brief from Salesforce + web (Salesforce + Perplexity)
- Competitor battlecard from a call mention (Gong + Perplexity + Notion)
- Trigger-event scoring: rank today's accounts by funding, hiring or leadership change (PredictLeads + Perplexity + HubSpot)
- Message test results to sequence copy: rewrite outbound steps from what buyers said (Wynter + Reply.io)
- Competitor pricing-page watch (Firecrawl + Notion)
- Conference speaker outreach: find an event's speakers and write notes about their talks (Exa + Firecrawl + Hunter)
- Content gaps from sales calls: buyer questions your website doesn't answer (Fireflies + Firecrawl)
Other categories: CRM · Outreach and sales engagement · Prospecting and data · Intent and signals · Call recording and support · Automation and workflow · Email, calendar and chat · Marketing and content · Attribution, partners and billing