# Silkworm

> Use this tool when you need to build and manage web scrapers with advanced features like async crawling and structured data extraction. It solves problems of extracting specific data from websites, handling complex HTML structures, and scaling crawling tasks. The Silkworm server takes in website URLs and CSS/XPath selectors as input and outputs extracted, structured data.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/bitingsnakes-silkworm  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/bitingsnakes-silkworm

## Description

Full-featured MCP server for building web scrapers. Provides async crawling, HTML parsing with CSS and XPath selectors, and structured data extraction. Built on silkworm-rs and scraper-rs Rust libraries with Docker support and comprehensive tests.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.93
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** cloud-infra
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/bitingsnakes-silkworm)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bitingsnakes/silkworm-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "bitingsnakes-silkworm"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/bitingsnakes-silkworm` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/bitingsnakes-silkworm/pull`

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