Stekpad + Claude via MCP
Give your Claude agent a real web scraper. Every saved Stekpad recipe becomes a tool Claude can call in two seconds.
Claude is the best agent for real-world work, but it ships with a weak web-browsing tool: it can only fetch plain public HTML, it cannot log into sites, and it cannot extract structured rows from SPAs.
Stekpad fills every gap. The Stekpad MCP server runs on your machine and exposes every saved recipe as a Claude-callable tool. Your Claude session logs into LinkedIn through your extension, scrapes the rows, and receives clean structured JSON — all without leaving the chat.
Three-step setup
- 1
Install the Stekpad MCP server
Run `npx @stekpad/mcp` in your terminal. The server starts on a local port and connects to the extension. - 2
Add the MCP endpoint to Claude Desktop
In Claude Desktop Settings → Developer → Edit Config, add `{"mcpServers": {"stekpad": {"command": "npx", "args": ["@stekpad/mcp"]}}}`. - 3
Name your recipes
Every saved recipe becomes a tool. Give them descriptive names — Claude reads the name + description to know when to call each one.
Native tool calls
Claude calls recipes like any other MCP tool. No custom integration code.
Your session, safe
Scraping happens from your browser. Claude sees only structured rows — never your cookies.
Two-second latency
Recipes run locally. Claude gets rows back in seconds, not minutes.
Real agent workflows
Claude chains multiple recipes: "enrich these leads, check their pricing, summarize their recent posts."
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**Use the contrarian voice from `docs/brand-voice.md`.** The core argument: every AI agent — Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini — has a training cutoff. The web moves daily. A company changes its pricing, a person changes jobs, a product launches, a competitor drops a feature — and your agent still knows the old version. Retrieval-augmented generation helps for documents you index. It does nothing for a live LinkedIn profile, a Google Maps listing, or a competitor's pricing page that changed yesterday. Name the gap directly: agents without live web access are answering from a snapshot, not the present. Stekpad's MCP server is the minimal-friction solution: register the server, call a recipe, get a structured response from the live page in two seconds. Show three concrete examples with the exact prompts.
Beyond Cron Jobs: Why Scraping Schedules Are the Wrong Model
**Use the contrarian voice from `docs/brand-voice.md`.** Take a strong position: cron-based scraping is a cargo cult from the server-side ETL era, not a design choice appropriate for 2026 workflows. Name the problem specifically: you schedule a 6am job, the data you need arrives at 3am — or a user's Claude session needs a live answer at 2pm and the next cron run is in 4 hours. Contrast two models: batch (cron, browse.ai robots, Apify schedules) vs on-demand (MCP calls, Zapier triggers, user-initiated). Argue that the only scraping model that fits agents, sales reps, and real-time pipelines is on-demand — triggered by the thing that needs the data. Stekpad supports both, but on-demand is the default because it matches how people actually work.
Build a Data Enrichment Pipeline with Claude and Stekpad
Practical walkthrough of a three-step enrichment pipeline: (1) configure the Stekpad MCP server in Claude Desktop, (2) write a Claude prompt that calls a recipe and processes the returned rows (summarize, classify, score), (3) output the enriched data to Google Sheets. Uses a concrete example: scrape a list of companies from LinkedIn, pass each to Claude for ICP scoring, write scored rows to a Sheet. Includes the exact Claude prompt template. No Python. Non-developers can follow.
MCP Explained for Growth Teams: Give Claude Live Web Data
Plain-English explanation of the Model Context Protocol for a non-developer growth audience. Covers: what MCP is (Claude's way of calling external tools), why it matters for web data (live results vs stale training data), how the Stekpad MCP server works in practice (install once, call a recipe from Claude, get structured rows back), and three concrete growth workflows (enrich a CRM, monitor competitor pricing, build a lead list). No code required in any example.
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