formats
Array of formats to retrieve per page — markdown, html, json, text (default: ["markdown"])
How to use it
formats is exposed by the Olostep MCP Server MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the formats tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
Install Olostep MCP Server
docker run -i --rm -e OLOSTEP_API_KEY="your-api-key" olostep/mcp-server:localOther tools in Olostep MCP Server (16)
, object, task, result (JSON if provided), sources, created
, status, totalurls, createdat, formats, country, parser, urls
Optional country code (e.g., US, GB, CA) for location-specific scraping
, object, status, starturl, maxpages, created, formats, country, parser
Pagination cursor into the list of discovered pages (default: 0)
Max pages to retrieve content for, 1–100 (default: 20)
Optional JSON schema/object or a short description of the desired output shape
, object, url, totalurls, urls, searchquery, topn
Choose format (html, markdown, json, or text) - default: markdown
Optional parser ID for specialized extraction
Search query (required)
The search query to sort URLs by (required)
Question or task to answer using web data (required)
The URL of the website to map (required)
The URL of the website you want to scrape (required)
Wait time in milliseconds before scraping (0-10000)