# powhttp

> Use this tool when you need to analyze and understand HTTP traffic, detect anti-bot measures, or validate API responses. It provides comprehensive access to captured traffic, offering specialized tools for searching, analyzing, and clustering HTTP entries, as well as tracing request flows and validating response schemas. Ideal for use cases like building API maps, generating scrapers, or detecting bot detection measures, with inputs including captured HTTP traffic and outputs including searchable entries, API maps, and validation results.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/usestring-powhttp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/usestring-powhttp

## Description

A Go-based MCP server that provides AI assistants with comprehensive access to HTTP traffic captured by powhttp, a network analysis tool. Offers specialized tools for searching HTTP entries, analyzing TLS fingerprints, comparing browser vs programmatic requests for anti-bot detection, clustering API endpoints, tracing request flows, and validating response schemas against Go structs or Zod definitions. Built with roaring bitmaps for fast search and LRU caching for performance. Includes guided prompts for common workflows like building API maps from captured traffic and generating MVP scrapers.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.65
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-02

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** browser-automation
- **Updated:** 2026-09-02

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/usestring-powhttp)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/usestring/powhttp-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": "usestring-powhttp"
    }
  }
}
```

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

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