MCP server

Fetch

MCP

HTTP get, as a tool, with a URL you can see.

Official fetch server. The model asks for a URL. You see the request. HTML comes back as text.

latest·MIT·Updated this month·github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers·Transport: stdio

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claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fetch": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-fetch"
      ]
    }
  }
}

By Model Context Protocol

Spec

What the server actually exposes.

  • fetch

    read

    GET a URL and return extracted text.

Guardrails

  • GET only
  • You see the URL
  • No credentials unless you add them

mcp-fetch.mcp/tools

Tools

  • fetch

    GET a URL and return extracted text.

    read

Last call

{ "ok": true,
  "tool": "fetch",
  "rows": 12 }

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