Fetch MCP Server

If you already use Fetch, the fetch mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Retrieves and converts web content into various formats.

What the server does

This MCP server provides functionality to fetch web content in various formats, including HTML, JSON, plain text, and Markdown.

• Fetches web content using modern fetch API
• Supports custom headers for requests
• Provides content in multiple formats: HTML, JSON, plain text, and Markdown
• Uses JSDOM for HTML parsing and text extraction
• Uses TurndownService for HTML to Markdown conversion

Installation

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client.

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

• 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

Worth knowing first

• It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
• Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Where it fits

This sits in the search and retrieval group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. 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 tokenizin; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

This entry was verified against Fetch's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.