Fetch MCP Server by zcaceres (not the reference Fetch server): Setup for Claude and Cursor

• Downloads a page's raw HTML

  Fetches a web address and returns its HTML as is. You can set headers, a character limit and where to start reading.

  Try: “Fetch the raw HTML of example.com.”

  Network · fetch_html

• Turns a page into Markdown

  Fetches a web address and converts the page to Markdown, which is easier for an assistant to read than raw HTML.

  Try: “Get example.com/docs as Markdown.”

  Network · fetch_markdown

• Gets a page as plain text

  Fetches a page and strips tags, scripts and styles so only the text is left.

  Try: “Give me the plain text of this page.”

  Network · fetch_txt

• Calls a JSON address

  Fetches a URL and returns the JSON response, with optional headers.

  Try: “Fetch https://api.example.com/status and show the JSON.”

  Network · fetch_json

• Pulls out just the article

  Uses Mozilla Readability to keep the main article and drop menus, ads and boilerplate, returned as Markdown.

  Try: “Extract the article from this blog post.”

  Network · fetch_readable

• Gets a YouTube video's captions

  Returns a video's transcript in the language you choose, default English. It runs yt-dlp if installed and otherwise reads the page directly.

  Try: “Get the English transcript of this YouTube video.”

  Runs code · fetch_youtube_transcript

Watch out for

• Fetched pages can contain hidden instructions

  Anything on a web page ends up in the assistant's context. Treat summaries of unknown pages with care. github.com

• It blocks private and local addresses

  The code rejects localhost, private IP addresses and hostnames that resolve to private IPs, to stop SSRF. github.com

• The transcript tool can run yt-dlp

  If yt-dlp is installed, fetch_youtube_transcript runs it and writes subtitles to a temporary folder it then removes. github.com

• The proxy option may be ignored on Node

  A code comment says the proxy setting is a Bun feature and is silently ignored on Node.js. github.com

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