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How to turn a site's scroll animations into a runnable GSAP stub with Awwwards MCP

Census a live page's scroll motion and generate a single-file GSAP ScrollTrigger starting point.

Authorization notice. Awwwards MCP is dual-use. Only use it on software, sites and systems you own or have explicit permission to test.

Reverse engineering. The census and stub recreate another site's motion, so use it to learn and rebuild techniques rather than copy a protected design or code.

Who it is forA front-end developer who wants to recreate a scroll-driven effect they saw on a reference site and needs a starting timeline instead of reverse-engineering it by hand.

The problemRebuilding scroll motion from a screen recording means guessing triggers, durations, and easing for each element.

The outcomeA per-element scroll census and a single-file GSAP plus ScrollTrigger stub with one timeline per animation and a reduced-motion guard.

What you need first

  • Node.js 22.13 or newer (check with `node -v`)
  • An MCP-compatible coding agent such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, or Cursor
  • No API key or account is needed for the core search tools
  • Playwright, as linked from the README, for the live-capture, scroll-map, and verify tools

Steps

  1. Run claude mcp add awwwards -- npx -y awwwards-mcp and set up the Playwright tooling linked in the README.
  2. Ask the agent to run analyze_scroll_map on the target URL to get the per-element census.
  3. Optionally run get_motion_dna on the same URL to confirm the animation libraries and scroll model.
  4. Pass the census JSON to build_gsap_stub to generate the single-file page.
  5. Open the generated page and check each timeline against the original site, keeping the reduced-motion guard in place.

Prompt for your agent

Use the awwwards-mcp server to run analyze_scroll_map on <target URL>, then pass the result to build_gsap_stub. Expected output: a runnable single-file GSAP plus ScrollTrigger stub with one timeline per census animation and a prefers-reduced-motion guard. Verify the stub opens without errors and that the timeline count matches the census.

Caveat. The stub is a starting point built from captured motion, so trigger timing and easing usually need hand tuning against the original.

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