# url-to-pdf (remote · url-pdf.hammbox.com)

Convert public web pages to PDF, images, Markdown, or JSON using one API key.

- Trust score: 74/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-04

## Components

- remote · `url-pdf.hammbox.com`: 74/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/strayly-url-to-pdf/url-pdf.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/strayly-url-to-pdf/url-pdf)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.2.1`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-04.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS check failed: the endpoint is reachable over plaintext HTTP.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 58/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1599 tokens (~319/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 83/100
  - Stability observed for 25 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the url-to-pdf MCP server?

url-to-pdf is a hosted endpoint at https://url-pdf.hammbox.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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http strayly-url-to-pdf 'https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "strayly-url-to-pdf": {
      "url": "https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "strayly-url-to-pdf": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.strayly-url-to-pdf]
url = "https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "strayly-url-to-pdf": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add strayly-url-to-pdf --url 'https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  strayly-url-to-pdf:
    url: "https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "strayly-url-to-pdf": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add strayly-url-to-pdf -t streamable-http -u 'https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "strayly-url-to-pdf": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 80 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 24 days of observed history at the previous scan, 25 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 73 to 77. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 22 days of observed history at the previous scan, 23 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 70. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 20 days of observed history at the previous scan, 21 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 60 to 63. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 18 days of observed history at the previous scan, 19 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-22 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-20 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (5)

### `list_capabilities` (~33 tokens)

Free. Returns what this server can do, the price of each paid tool, and where to buy an API key.

### `url_to_pdf` (~440 tokens)

Render a web page to PDF. Requires an API key purchased at https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/buy. If this MCP request carries a valid "x-api-key" or "Authorization: Bearer" header, it renders directly and returns a 1-hour download URL; otherwise it returns purchase guidance.

Input parameters:

- `blockAds` (boolean): Block requests to major ad/analytics domains before rendering. Default false.
- `clickSelector` (string): CSS selector to click before rendering (expand, dismiss modal, switch tab).
- `darkMode` (boolean): Render with prefers-color-scheme: dark. Default false.
- `deviceScaleFactor` (number): Device pixel ratio, 0.5-3. Default 1. Set 2 for retina.
- `format` (string): Paper size. Default A4.
- `height` (number): Viewport height in px, 240-2160. Default 900.
- `hideCookieBanners` (boolean): Remove elements that look like cookie consent banners. Default false.
- `landscape` (boolean): Landscape orientation. Default false.
- `margin` (string): Margin shorthand like "10mm" — or an object {top,right,bottom,left}. Optional.
- `preferCssPageSize` (boolean): Honor the page CSS @page size instead of the format option.
- `printBackground` (boolean): Print background graphics. Default true.
- `scale` (number): Scale, 0.1-2. Default 1.
- `timeoutMs` (number): Navigation timeout in ms, 5000-100000. Default 45000.
- `url` (string, required): Absolute http(s) URL of the page to render. Required.
- `waitForSelector` (string): Optional CSS selector to wait for before rendering.
- `waitMs` (number): Extra settle time after load, 0-10000ms. Few dynamics pages need this.
- `waitUntil` (string): Puppeteer navigation wait condition. Default networkidle2.
- `width` (number): Viewport width in px, 320-3840. Default 1280.

### `url_to_screenshot` (~440 tokens)

Capture a page as an image. Requires an API key purchased at https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/buy. If this MCP request carries a valid "x-api-key" or "Authorization: Bearer" header, it renders directly and returns a 1-hour download URL; otherwise it returns purchase guidance.

Input parameters:

- `blockAds` (boolean): Block requests to major ad/analytics domains before rendering. Default false.
- `clickSelector` (string): CSS selector to click before rendering (expand, dismiss modal, switch tab).
- `clip` (string): Clip region as "x,y,width,height" — or an object {x,y,width,height}. Optional.
- `darkMode` (boolean): Render with prefers-color-scheme: dark. Default false.
- `deviceScaleFactor` (number): Device pixel ratio, 0.5-3. Default 1. Set 2 for retina.
- `format` (string): Image format. Default png.
- `fullPage` (boolean): Capture the full scrollable page, not just the viewport. Default true.
- `height` (number): Viewport height in px, 240-2160. Default 900.
- `hideCookieBanners` (boolean): Remove elements that look like cookie consent banners. Default false.
- `quality` (number): JPEG quality 0-1. Ignored for png. Default 0.8.
- `selector` (string): Capture only the element matching this CSS selector, instead of the page.
- `timeoutMs` (number): Navigation timeout in ms, 5000-100000. Default 45000.
- `url` (string, required): Absolute http(s) URL of the page to capture. Required.
- `waitForSelector` (string): Optional CSS selector to wait for before rendering.
- `waitMs` (number): Extra settle time after load, 0-10000ms. Few dynamics pages need this.
- `waitUntil` (string): Puppeteer navigation wait condition. Default networkidle2.
- `width` (number): Viewport width in px, 320-3840. Default 1280.

### `url_to_markdown` (~380 tokens)

Extract page content as clean Markdown. Requires an API key purchased at https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/buy. If this MCP request carries a valid "x-api-key" or "Authorization: Bearer" header, it renders directly and returns a 1-hour download URL; otherwise it returns purchase guidance.

Input parameters:

- `blockAds` (boolean): Block requests to major ad/analytics domains before rendering. Default false.
- `clickSelector` (string): CSS selector to click before rendering (expand, dismiss modal, switch tab).
- `darkMode` (boolean): Render with prefers-color-scheme: dark. Default false.
- `deviceScaleFactor` (number): Device pixel ratio, 0.5-3. Default 1. Set 2 for retina.
- `height` (number): Viewport height in px, 240-2160. Default 900.
- `hideCookieBanners` (boolean): Remove elements that look like cookie consent banners. Default false.
- `keepImages` (boolean): Keep image links in the Markdown output. Default false.
- `removeSelectors` (array): CSS selectors to strip before extraction, e.g. ["nav", ".ads", "footer"].
- `timeoutMs` (number): Navigation timeout in ms, 5000-100000. Default 45000.
- `url` (string, required): Absolute http(s) URL of the page to extract. Required.
- `waitForSelector` (string): Optional CSS selector to wait for before rendering.
- `waitMs` (number): Extra settle time after load, 0-10000ms. Few dynamics pages need this.
- `waitUntil` (string): Puppeteer navigation wait condition. Default networkidle2.
- `width` (number): Viewport width in px, 320-3840. Default 1280.

### `url_to_extract` (~306 tokens)

Extract structured data from a page as JSON: title, meta description, canonical URL, language, main text and links. Readability-first, no LLM involved. Requires an API key purchased at https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/buy. Same auth as the other paid tools.

Input parameters:

- `blockAds` (boolean): Block requests to major ad/analytics domains before rendering. Default false.
- `clickSelector` (string): CSS selector to click before rendering (expand, dismiss modal, switch tab).
- `darkMode` (boolean): Render with prefers-color-scheme: dark. Default false.
- `hideCookieBanners` (boolean): Remove elements that look like cookie consent banners. Default false.
- `maxLinks` (number): Maximum number of links to return, 0-500. Default 100.
- `maxTextChars` (number): Truncate main text to this many characters, 500-200000. Default 20000.
- `timeoutMs` (number): Navigation timeout in ms, 5000-100000. Default 45000.
- `url` (string, required): Absolute http(s) URL of the page to extract. Required.
- `waitForSelector` (string): Optional CSS selector to wait for before rendering.
- `waitMs` (number): Extra settle time after load, 0-10000ms. Few dynamics pages need this.
- `waitUntil` (string): Puppeteer navigation wait condition. Default networkidle2.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/strayly-url-to-pdf/url-pdf#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-04: 74
- 2026-11-03: 73
- 2026-11-02: 73
- 2026-11-01: 72
- 2026-10-31: 72
- 2026-10-30: 71
- 2026-10-29: 71
- 2026-10-28: 70
- 2026-10-27: 70
- 2026-10-26: 69
- 2026-10-25: 69
- 2026-10-24: 69
- 2026-10-23: 68
- 2026-10-22: 68
- 2026-10-21: 67
- 2026-10-20: 67
- 2026-10-19: 66
- 2026-10-18: 66
- 2026-10-17: 65
- 2026-10-16: 65
- 2026-10-15: 64
- 2026-10-14: 64
- 2026-10-13: 63
- 2026-10-12: 63
- 2026-10-10: 62

## Common questions

### What is the url-to-pdf MCP server?

url-to-pdf is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.strayly/url-to-pdf. Convert public web pages to PDF, images, Markdown, or JSON using one API key. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp).

### Is the url-to-pdf MCP server safe to use?

url-to-pdf scores 74 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 url-to-pdf MCP server expose?

url-to-pdf exposes 5 tools: list_capabilities, url_to_pdf, url_to_screenshot, url_to_markdown, url_to_extract. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,599 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the url-to-pdf MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to url-to-pdf without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the url-to-pdf MCP server still maintained?

url-to-pdf is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/mcp
- Authorisation metadata: https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/strayly/url-to-pdf
- Website: https://url-pdf.hammbox.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/strayly-url-to-pdf/url-pdf.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/strayly-url-to-pdf/url-pdf.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/strayly-url-to-pdf/url-pdf