Use browser.city in Cline (VS Code) via MCP

Cline supports MCP servers. Add browser.city once and your agent can call browser tools (open, navigate, click, snapshot, markdown) on demand.

1) Set your API key

Set BROWSERCITY_API_KEY in your environment.

2) Find Cline’s MCP settings file

Cline stores MCP server config in cline_mcp_settings.json.

Common locations:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/saoudrizwan.claude-dev/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json
Linux: ~/.config/Code/User/globalStorage/saoudrizwan.claude-dev/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json
Windows: %APPDATA%/Code/User/globalStorage/saoudrizwan.claude-dev/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json

3) Add browser.city as a remote MCP server

Add an entry under mcpServers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "browsercity": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "https://mcp.browser.city/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${BROWSERCITY_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Notes:

Keep the API key in an environment variable so it doesn’t end up in source control.
If your Cline version uses a different remote transport field, keep the same url + headers and adjust type accordingly.

4) Use it in Cline

Try:

Use browsercity tools to open a browser, navigate to a URL, and extract markdown.

5) When to use REST instead

If you don’t need interaction, the Request API is often the simplest integration:

request.ts

const res = await fetch("https://api.browser.city/v1/requests", {  method: "POST",  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BROWSERCITY_API_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },  body: JSON.stringify({ url: "https://example.com", markdown: true }),}).then((r) => r.json());console.log(res.content);

import osimport requestsapi_key = os.environ["BROWSERCITY_API_KEY"]res = requests.post(    "https://api.browser.city/v1/requests",    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"},    json={"url": "https://example.com", "markdown": True},).json()print(res["content"])

using System.Net.Http.Headers;using System.Net.Http.Json;var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("BROWSERCITY_API_KEY")!;var http = new HttpClient();http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", apiKey);var res = await http.PostAsJsonAsync(  "https://api.browser.city/v1/requests",  new { url = "https://example.com", markdown = true });Console.WriteLine(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());

import java.net.URI;import java.net.http.*;public class Request {  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {    var apiKey = System.getenv("BROWSERCITY_API_KEY");    var http = HttpClient.newHttpClient();    var req = HttpRequest.newBuilder()      .uri(URI.create("https://api.browser.city/v1/requests"))      .header("Authorization", "Bearer %s".formatted(apiKey))      .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString(        "{\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"markdown\":true}"))      .build();    var res = http.send(req, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());    System.out.println(res.body());  }}