Fetcher MCP
Fetch JavaScript-rendered web pages with a headless browser and return their main content as HTML or Markdown.
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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 listed in this index written primarily in TypeScript, with 1.1k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in January 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
Before connecting: access and data
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- List the accounts, files and services the enabled tools can read, change or execute. Check your actual credentials and discovered tools.
- Use narrowly scoped credentials and read-only mode where supported. Review proposed writes before approving them; a generated configuration does not apply these limits for you.
- Local launch is not local-only data processing. External services receive requests, and your client may pass tool results to its model provider. Check both destinations before sharing private data.
- Keep keys and browser session files out of shared config, repositories and screenshots. Know how to disconnect the server and separately revoke its credentials or account sessions.
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 Code
claude mcp add fetcher-mcp -- npx -y fetcher-mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"fetcher-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "fetcher-mcp"]
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"fetcher-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "fetcher-mcp"]
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"fetcher-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "fetcher-mcp"]
}
}
}Codex
[mcp_servers.fetcher-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "fetcher-mcp"]