Record · fetcher-mcpMCP serverOpen sourceLow activityVerified Sep 23, 2026

Fetcher MCP

Fetch JavaScript-rendered web pages with a headless browser and return their main content as HTML or Markdown.

Sources and review

Checked against public documentation on September 23, 2026. Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.

Best for

Reading modern, script-heavy pages that plain HTTP fetch tools return empty.

About Fetcher MCP

Fetcher MCP fetches web pages with a headless Playwright browser, so dynamic, JavaScript-rendered sites work, and extracts the main content with the Readability algorithm, dropping navigation and ads. It returns HTML or Markdown, fetches several URLs in parallel and blocks unneeded resources to save time. HTTP and SSE transports and Docker deployment are supported.

Fetcher MCP is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 1.1k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in January 2026.

Add Fetcher MCP to your MCP client

Generated from the launch command in the project's README. Your client starts the server on demand.

Claude CodeRun in your terminal

claude mcp add fetcher-mcp -- npx -y fetcher-mcp

Cursor~/.cursor/mcp.json or .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fetcher-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "fetcher-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

VS Code.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "fetcher-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "fetcher-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktopclaude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fetcher-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "fetcher-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Codex~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.fetcher-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "fetcher-mcp"]

Check the project's README for required accounts, keys and permissions before connecting. Setup guide for each client →

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