Mercury Parser transforms web pages into clean text. Publishers and programmers use it to make the web make sense, and readers use it to read any web
Mercury Parser transforms web pages into clean text. Publishers and programmers use it to make the web make sense, and readers use it to read any web article comfortably. Exposed over MCP by the mercury mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
Mercury Parser extracts the bits that humans care about from any URL you give it. That includes article content, titles, authors, published dates, excerpts, lead images, and more.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Installation — The Installation tool exposed by this serverUsage — // NOTE: When used in the browser, you can omit the URL argument // and simply run Parser.parse() to parse the current pagePreviewing — You can run a local server to test out your changes with the following command. The site will be available at http://localhost:3000@jocmp/mercury-parser on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
Plenty of browser automation servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Mercury's toolset — Installation, Usage, Previewing — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by GitHub Actions; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
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| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Installation | The Installation tool exposed by this server. |
| Usage | // NOTE: When used in the browser, you can omit the URL argument // and simply run Parser.parse() to parse the current page. |
| Previewing | You can run a local server to test out your changes with the following command. The site will be available at <http://localhost:3000> |
{
"mcpServers": {
"mercury-parser": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@jocmp/mercury-parser"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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