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modelcontextprotocol/fetch

MCP Server

MCP Fetch Server - retrieve web content and convert to markdown

check: npx https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/fetch

Official Anthropic MCP server for web content retrieval. Fetches URLs and converts to markdown for LLM consumption.

MCP Server

  • Package: mcp-server-fetch (Python, published on PyPI)
  • Transport: stdio
  • Command: uvx mcp-server-fetch
  • Runtime: requires uv / uvx (https://github.com/astral-sh/uv). Install once with brew install uv or curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh.

Note: there is no @modelcontextprotocol/server-fetch npm package. The official fetch server is Python-based and shipped via PyPI. Earlier npx invocations 404 against the npm registry.

Authentication

None required.

Available Tools

ToolDescription
fetchFetch a URL and return content as markdown

Configuration Example

toml
[[mcp.servers]]
name = "fetch"
type = "stdio"
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-server-fetch"]
timeout_seconds = 60
tools = []
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