Indexing of sites requiring login

Would it be possible to set up a login ID and password to index the site’s information?

Since websites have a lot of different authentication methods, it would be really difficult to make something like an email + password solution work. But what most websites have in common is that they store your authentication state in your cookies. So what we might be able to do is that you add your cookies for the website you want to index to Cursor, and then when it tries to index that website, it would be logged in. I’ll note this down. Thank you for your suggestion!

While we don’t have this feature yet, you could save the text from the website you want to index locally and include it in your codebase context, as I described here.

hi Jakob

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. This isn’t technically possible yet, is it?

Not yet :frowning:

got it

Hey :wave:
I am also very interessted into have the ability to index some documentation that requires an authentication.

Since we are hosting the documentation of some of our own APIs internaly, they can not be accessed without auth.

Would be veeeery helpful to provide some solution here.
Thanks for checking this again :slight_smile:

Yeah this isn’t possible right now - the best workaround would be to save the documentation content locally and add it to your project context using @Docs. Check out how to do that here: Cursor – @Docs

We know this isn’t ideal for internal docs, but we’re looking into better solutions for authenticated documentation

Any updates on this? It would be a game changer if we had the ability to index internal docs

Hey, this can likely be done with a custom MCP server, which gets the info you want and returns it to Cursor! Learn more here: