switch402
REMOTE · API.SWITCH402.COM
Markdown scrape, site map, page metadata, screenshots, web search and PDF to text. Pay per call
Available components
Last scanned (8 hours ago)
Scores higher than 53% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 5 Nov 2026.
Category Web Scraping
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security57
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 9 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Unverified
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability73
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 882 tokens (~98/item across 9 items; 9 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management23
- Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage95
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 85% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 9 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 10 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 3 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 31 Oct 26 +1
- The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads security
- Tool “scrape_lite” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Schema quality: 736 → 882 ▼ functional
- Server version: 0.3.0 → 0.4.1 functional
- New tool “pdf” functional
- 30 Oct 26 +1
- The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads security
- Schema quality: 257 → 736 ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 75% → 82% ▲ functional
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- Server version: 0.2.0 → 0.3.0 functional
- New tool “map” functional
- New tool “metadata” functional
- New tool “screenshot” functional
- New tool “screenshot_full” functional
- New tool “search” functional
- 29 Oct 26 63
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Probed https://api.switch402.com/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=api.switch402.com | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 28 Oct 2026 | 26 Jan 2027 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | 48d00932fe6c4d380eb565034d19cfb7 |
| SANs: api.switch402.com | ||||||
| CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) | CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US | 13 Dec 2023 | 20 Feb 2029 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3 |
| CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) | CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Jan 2028 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of api.switch402.com. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| switch402.com. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://api.switch402.com/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://api.switch402.com/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://api.switch402.com/mcp |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
map Map a site: links + sitemap URLs ~106
Same-site URLs found on the page plus sitemap URLs (robots.txt Sitemap lines or /sitemap.xml), deduped, up to limit (default 200, max 1000). Paid: map $0.001 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | – |
| url | string | yes | Public http(s) page or site root. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
metadata Page metadata (title, OG, JSON-LD) ~85
Title, meta description, canonical, lang, OpenGraph and Twitter tags, and parsed JSON-LD blocks of an HTML page. Paid: metadata $0.001 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | Public http(s) HTML page. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
pdf PDF to text ~116
A public PDF URL in, its text page by page out (up to 50 pages, 10 MB; text-based PDFs). Paid: $0.008 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only when text comes back). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| pages | – | – | Optional page numbers (up to 50): [1, 2] or "1-3,7". |
| url | string | yes | Public http(s) URL of a PDF. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
quote Price and availability (free) ~53
Free. Our price for a tier, how many providers are healthy right now, estimated latency, and payment status.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| tier | string | – | – |
| url | string | yes | Public http(s) page to convert to markdown. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
scrape Scrape a page to markdown ~76
Page to clean markdown, routed to a healthy provider with automatic failover. Paid: $0.008 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | Public http(s) page to convert to markdown. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
scrape_lite Scrape a page to markdown (lite) ~93
URL to markdown: any public page as clean markdown, with failover (/v1/scrape/lite: $0.003 per page). Paid: $0.003 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | Public http(s) page to convert to markdown. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
screenshot Screenshot a page (PNG) ~87
The visible part of a public page (1280x800 viewport, JavaScript rendered) as a base64 PNG in image_base64. Paid: $0.008 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | Public http(s) page to capture. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
screenshot_full Full-page screenshot (PNG) ~80
The whole scrollable page (JavaScript rendered) as a base64 PNG in image_base64. Paid: $0.012 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | Public http(s) page to capture. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search Web search ~87
A query in, up to 10 ranked web results (title, url, snippet) out. Paid: $0.008 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Max results (default 10). |
| query | string | yes | Search query. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the switch402 MCP server?
switch402 is a hosted endpoint at https://api.switch402.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
remote · api.switch402.com
claude mcp add --transport http com-switch402-switch402 'https://api.switch402.com/mcp'
What is the switch402 MCP server?
switch402 is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.switch402/switch402. Markdown scrape, site map, page metadata, screenshots, web search and PDF to text. Pay per call. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.switch402.com/mcp).
Is the switch402 MCP server safe to use?
switch402 scores 67 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the switch402 MCP server expose?
switch402 exposes 9 tools: scrape, scrape_lite, map, metadata, screenshot, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 783 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the switch402 MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to switch402 without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the switch402 MCP server still maintained?
switch402 is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.