Zenrows CLI

Install the Zenrows CLI, authenticate, and get your first result from the terminal in under five minutes.

Zenrows gives your terminal, and your AI agents, reliable access to the protected web: sites that are dynamic, JavaScript-heavy, or built to block ordinary tools. The zenrows CLI puts fetching, extracting, and running jobs at scale behind one command, plus the skills, templates, and MCP wiring that make it work naturally with an agent, not just a script.

It’s open source.

Installation

npx -y @zenrows/cli init

No API key needed to start. The first cloud call auto-provisions a Free-plan account and stores the key in .zenrows/secrets.json. Claim it later to keep your usage history, the same key keeps working:

zenrows account claim

To use an existing key instead of the auto-provisioning flow:

zenrows login --api-key <your-key>
# or
export ZENROWS_API_KEY=<your-key>
zenrows login --env

Quickstart

npx -y @zenrows/cli init
zenrows fetch https://httpbin.io/html
zenrows extract https://www.scrapingcourse.com/ecommerce/ --autoparse

Full setup

One command instead of many: creates your workspace, installs every skill, template, workflow, recipe, and eval, configures MCP for your agent clients, and runs a health check.

zenrows init --all

Target specific agent clients instead of the defaults:

zenrows init --agents claude-code,cursor,windsurf

If a client can’t be auto-configured, init prints the manual steps instead of skipping it silently.

Commands

Primitives

The actual scraping work.

Command	Does
fetch	Get any page as clean, usable content, even if it’s protected
extract	Turn messy pages into clean, structured JSON
batch	Process thousands of URLs reliably, in one job
browser	Click, log in, navigate, and interact, like a real user

Agent Toolkit

What makes Zenrows easy for an agent, or a developer, to actually use.

Command	Does
mcp	Connect an AI agent, Claude Code, Cursor, and more, to Zenrows
skill	Install agent-readable playbooks for choosing the right tool
template	Scaffold a minimal, working project
workflow	Run a multi-step, end-to-end process
recipe	Run a single, ready-made example
eval	Run a reproducible benchmark

Check your setup, and what’s already installed:

zenrows status

Next steps

Connect an agent

Wire Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and more into Zenrows with one command.

Troubleshooting

Read a failed run’s trace and find the specific next action.