Fetch Features
- •Web content fetching and extraction
- •HTML to Markdown conversion
- •Chunked content reading
- •Customizable content length
- •Raw content mode
- •Robots.txt compliance options
- •Configurable user agent
Fetch Setup & Configuration
Requirements
- •UV package manager (recommended)
- •Or Python with pip
- •Node.js (optional, for enhanced HTML simplification)
- •Claude Desktop
Installation Instructions
# Using UV (Recommended)
uvx mcp-server-fetch
# Using PIP
pip install mcp-server-fetch
python -m mcp_server_fetchConfiguration
# UV Configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"fetch": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-server-fetch",
"--ignore-robots-txt", # Optional
"--user-agent=YourUserAgent" # Optional
]
}
}
}
# PIP Configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"fetch": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "mcp_server_fetch"]
}
}
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Fetch Required Inputs
url
- Type
- string
- Description
- URL to fetch
- Required
- Yes
max_length
- Type
- integer
- Description
- Maximum number of characters to return
- Required
- No
start_index
- Type
- integer
- Description
- Start content from this character index
- Required
- No
raw
- Type
- boolean
- Description
- Get raw content without markdown conversion
- Required
- No
Fetch Use Cases
- •Web content extraction
- •Article reading and processing
- •Documentation retrieval
- •Web scraping
- •Content analysis
- •Research assistance
- •Information gathering
Frequently Asked Questions
A Model Context Protocol server that provides web content fetching capabilities, enabling LLMs to retrieve and process content from web pages. Converts HTML to markdown for easier consumption and supports chunked reading with customizable start positions.
UV package manager (recommended), Or Python with pip, Node.js (optional, for enhanced HTML simplification), Claude DesktopView detailed requirements
Follow the installation instructions in the setup section above.View installation guide
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