How to integrate Crawlbase MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Crawlbase MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Crawlbase is a web crawling API platform for fetching pages, managing crawler queues, storing crawl results, and tracking usage. It helps developers collect web data at scale without building and maintaining crawler infrastructure.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Crawlbase MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • CodeAct: A dedicated workbench that allows GPT to write its code to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Large tool responses: Handle them to minimise context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so GPTs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install Crawlbase MCP in Codex

Run the setup command

Run this command in your terminal to add the Composio MCP server to Codex.

Terminal

It will initiate the authentication in a browser window, authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

Composio authentication page

(Optional) Authenticate with OAuth

To authenticate manually, run the login command to open a browser window and authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

bash
codex mcp login composio

Verify the connection

Run codex mcp list to confirm Composio appears as a registered MCP server.

bash
codex mcp list

Codex App

Codex App follows the same approach as VS Code.

  1. Click ⚙️ on the bottom left → MCP Servers → + Add servers → Streamable HTTP:
  2. Fill the header and Key fields with { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }.
  3. The Key is the Composio API key, that you can find on dashboard.composio.dev
  4. Click on Authenticate and authorize Codex to your Composio account and you're all set.
Codex App MCP setup
  1. Restart and verify if it's there in .codex/config.toml
bash
[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

What is the Crawlbase MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Crawlbase MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Crawlbase account. It provides structured and secure access to web crawling, cloud storage, account usage, and user agent generation, so your agent can crawl public pages, retrieve stored content, delete saved pages, monitor usage, and generate user agents on your behalf.

  • Public web page crawling: Have your agent fetch content from any public HTTP or HTTPS page and review whether the crawl succeeded.
  • Stored page retrieval: Let the agent find and retrieve individual or grouped pages saved in Crawlbase Cloud Storage.
  • Stored content cleanup: Direct your agent to permanently delete selected pages from cloud storage and confirm each deletion outcome.
  • Usage and storage monitoring: Instruct your agent to check current crawling usage, review previous month statistics, and count stored pages.
  • User agent generation: Have your agent generate up to ten realistic randomized user agent strings for a selected device class.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Crawlbase with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Crawlbase directly from your terminal, VS Code, or the Codex App using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across CLI, VS Code, and standalone app
  • Natural language commands for Crawlbase operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • CodeAct workbench for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking Codex to perform various Crawlbase operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Crawlbase action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Crawl URL

Fetch a public HTTP or HTTPS URL through Crawlbase using the connected Normal token and return its content with separate target and Crawlbase statuses.

Delete Stored Pages

Irreversibly delete explicitly selected pages from Crawlbase Cloud Storage by request ID and return each page's deletion outcome.

Generate User Agents

Generate one to ten realistic randomized User-Agent strings for a selected device class.

Get Crawling Usage

Return current Crawling API usage and optionally previous-month statistics for the connected Crawlbase account.

Get Storage Count

Return the number of pages currently held in Crawlbase Cloud Storage.

Get Stored Page

Retrieve the latest Crawlbase Cloud Storage page by exactly one request ID or original URL.

Get Stored Pages

Retrieve up to 100 Crawlbase Cloud Storage pages by request ID without deleting them.

List Stored Page IDs

Return one page of Crawlbase Cloud Storage request IDs and a short-lived continuation cursor.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Crawlbase MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Crawlbase tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Crawlbase and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Codex fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Crawlbase tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Crawlbase scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Crawlbase data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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