Connecting WARC archives to Claude using mcp-server-webcrawl (MCP)

📦 Get mcp-server-webcrawl: https://pragmar.com/mcp-server-webcrawl/
🕸️ Get WGet: macOS use brew, Windows use Ubuntu (see MS Store)
🐍 Get Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/
🔮 Get Claude Desktop: https://claude.ai/download

Timestamps:
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:38 Understanding WARC vs WGet mirror mode
- 01:32 Installing Python and server requirements
- 02:13 Installing MCP Server WebCrawl
- 02:42 Creating WARC archives with WGet
- 04:34 Configuring Claude Desktop MCP servers
- 05:39 MCP Server WebCrawl demonstration

This tutorial sets up a mcp-server-webcrawl search connection from WARC (Web ARChive) files directly to Claude Desktop. mcp-server-webcrawl acts as a search and retrieval interface, allowing Claude to filter and analyze web content archived in the comprehensive WARC format, including status codes and headers.
What you'll learn:

Installing mcp-server-webcrawl via pip
Configuring Claude Desktop for your MCP server
Understanding the differences between WARC and mirror archiving
Enabling your LLM to search and retrieve content autonomously
Testing your setup with example.com and pragmar.com

This open-source tool is for developers, SEOs, web content administrators--anyone looking to leverage web content, work with archived web content, or create specialized knowledge bases for their LLMs.
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