mcp/fetch
A Model Context Protocol server that provides web content fetching capabilities. This server enables LLMs to retrieve and process content from web pages, converting HTML to markdown for easier consumption.
The fetch tool will truncate the response, but by using the start_index
argument, you can specify where to start the content extraction. This lets models read a webpage in chunks, until they find the information they need.
fetch
- Fetches a URL from the internet and extracts its contents as markdown.
url
(string, required): URL to fetchmax_length
(integer, optional): Maximum number of characters to return (default: 5000)start_index
(integer, optional): Start content from this character index (default: 0)raw
(boolean, optional): Get raw content without markdown conversion (default: false)url
(string, required): URL to fetchAdd to your Claude settings:
"mcpServers": {
"fetch": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "mcp/fetch"]
}
}
By default, the server will obey a websites robots.txt file if the request came from the model (via a tool), but not if
the request was user initiated (via a prompt). This can be disabled by adding the argument --ignore-robots-txt
to the
args
list in the configuration.
By default, depending on if the request came from the model (via a tool), or was user initiated (via a prompt), the server will use either the user-agent
ModelContextProtocol/1.0 (Autonomous; +https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers)
or
ModelContextProtocol/1.0 (User-Specified; +https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers)
This can be customized by adding the argument --user-agent=YourUserAgent
to the args
list in the configuration.
mcp-server-fetch is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.
docker pull mcp/fetch