Drop-in upgrade to Claude's WebFetch — auto-detects static vs JS-rendered pages and returns clean markdown
Render Fetch MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Drop-in upgrade to Claude's WebFetch — auto-detects static vs JS-rendered pages and returns clean markdown.
Drop-in upgrade to Claude Code's WebFetch — handles JS-rendered pages automatically.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Once Render Fetch is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
fetch — Fetch page as markdown (auto-detects mode)fetch_raw — Fetch page as raw HTMLscreenshot — Take a viewport screenshotThis sits in the browser automation group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Render Fetch's toolset — fetch, fetch_raw, screenshot — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by sub-techie09; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Render Fetch's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| fetch | Fetch page as markdown (auto-detects mode) |
| fetch_raw | Fetch page as raw HTML |
| screenshot | Take a viewport screenshot |
{
"mcpServers": {
"render-fetch": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "render-fetch"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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