Retrieves web content in various formats via HTTP.
Fetch MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Retrieves web content in various formats via HTTP.
This MCP server provides functionality to fetch web content in various formats, including HTML, JSON, plain text, and Markdown.
Once Fetch is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
fetch_html — Fetch a website and return the content as HTMLInput — - url (string, required): URL of the website to fetchfetch_json — Fetch a JSON file from a URLfetch_txt — Fetch a website and return the content as plain text (no HTML)fetch_markdown — Fetch a website and return the content as MarkdownTools — The Tools tool exposed by this serverResources — This server does not provide any persistent resources. It's designed to fetch and transform web content on demandUsage — The Usage tool exposed by this server@smithery/cli on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
Among the search and retrieval options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Fetch's toolset — fetch_html, Input, fetch_json and 5 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by goswamig; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| fetch_html | Fetch a website and return the content as HTML |
| Input | - url (string, required): URL of the website to fetch |
| fetch_json | Fetch a JSON file from a URL |
| fetch_txt | Fetch a website and return the content as plain text (no HTML) |
| fetch_markdown | Fetch a website and return the content as Markdown |
| Tools | The Tools tool exposed by this server. |
| Resources | This server does not provide any persistent resources. It's designed to fetch and transform web content on demand. |
| Usage | The Usage tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"fetch-2": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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