Fetch

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Official MCP reference server that fetches a web page by URL and converts its HTML content into clean markdown for efficient consumption by language models.

Install Fetch

Published by: Official (vendor)
Transport: Local process (stdio)
Authentication: None
Package: mcp-server-fetch

Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor

Add this to the mcpServers object in your client's config file, then restart the client.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-fetch"
      ]
    }
  }
}

VS Code uses a different key — show that config

Identical entry, filed under servers rather than mcpServers. Put it in .vscode/mcp.json for one workspace.

{
  "servers": {
    "fetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-fetch"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Before it will answer

The project's own README flags the risk: it can reach local and internal IP addresses, which makes it a way into your network from a prompt. Anything it fetches is untrusted text arriving in the model's context.

Documentation ↗ Source ↗ Config checked against vendor docs August 25, 2026 · how we verify

Tools

fetch

Fetch a URL from the internet and extract its contents as markdown, with optional maximum length, start index, and ra...

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