# anansi

> anansi — mdowis-anansi. Use this tool when you need to extract data from websites that actively block scraping attempts, as it provides a self-healing web scraper that can evade bot detection and repair itself. It solves problems of data extraction from hostile sites, handling complex web pages, and integrating with large language models (LLMs) for conversational crawling. It takes in website URLs and LLM-driven crawl instructions, outputting extracted data through an MCP server interface.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/mdowis-anansi  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/mdowis-anansi

## Description

A self-healing scraper for hostile sites: broken selectors repair themselves, browser rendering kicks in when needed, and a coherent identity layer (Chrome TLS fingerprints, matched personas, vendor-aware Cloudflare/Akamai/DataDome handling) works to slip past bot detection. Ships with an MCP server so any LLM can drive a full crawl by conversation.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** container
- **Runtime environment:** vm
- **Category:** browser-automation
- **Updated:** 2026-09-27

## Source

- **Source listing:** [GitHub](https://github.com/mdowis/anansi)

## 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": "mdowis-anansi"
    }
  }
}
```

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

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