Overview

The MCP Fetch Server provides web content fetching capabilities, enabling LLMs to retrieve and process content from web pages, converting HTML to markdown for easier consumption. It supports chunked reading of web pages.

Official Server:

Developed and maintained by Anthropic

Key Features

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Web Content Fetching

Retrieve content from any URL on the internet

📝

HTML to Markdown Conversion

Automatically convert fetched HTML content into readable Markdown

✂️

Chunked Reading

Read web pages in manageable chunks, allowing models to process large documents incrementally

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Customization Options

Configure user-agent, proxy settings, and robots.txt obedience

Available Tools

Quick Reference

Tool	Purpose	Category
`fetch`	Fetch URL content	Read

Detailed Usage

fetch▶

Fetches a URL from the internet and extracts its contents as markdown.

use_mcp_tool({
  server_name: "fetch",
  tool_name: "fetch",
  arguments: {
    url: "https://example.com",
    max_length: 5000,
    start_index: 0,
    raw: false
  }
});

Returns the fetched content, optionally converted to Markdown.

Installation

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-fetch"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Common Use Cases

1. Summarizing Web Pages

Fetch web content and have an LLM summarize it for quick insights:

// Fetch a news article and summarize it
use_mcp_tool({
  server_name: "fetch",
  tool_name: "fetch",
  arguments: {
    url: "https://example.com/news-article",
    max_length: 1000
  }
});

2. Extracting Specific Information

Extract data points from web pages, such as product details or contact information:

// Extract product price from an e-commerce page
use_mcp_tool({
  server_name: "fetch",
  tool_name: "fetch",
  arguments: {
    url: "https://example.com/product/123",
    // LLM would then parse the markdown to find the price
  }
});

3. Monitoring Websites

Periodically fetch content to detect changes or updates on a website:

// Monitor a competitor's pricing page
use_mcp_tool({
  server_name: "fetch",
  tool_name: "fetch",
  arguments: {
    url: "https://competitor.com/pricing"
  }
});

Connection String Format

Not applicable, as the Fetch MCP Server retrieves content from URLs rather than connecting to a database.

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