---
title: "Fetch MCP Server for ToolPiper · ModelPiper"
description: "Fetch web pages and return clean markdown. The Fetch MCP server is a lightweight URL fetcher that strips boilerplate and returns markdown your model can actually read. Pair it with a search server for one-stop research."
canonical: "https://modelpiper.com/mcp-tools/fetch"
---

# Fetch MCP Server for ToolPiper · ModelPiper

> Fetch web pages and return clean markdown. The Fetch MCP server is a lightweight URL fetcher that strips boilerplate and returns markdown your model can actually read. Pair it with a search server for one-stop research.

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# Fetch MCP Server

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Fetch web pages and return clean markdown.

Install Fetch in ToolPiper

Don't have ToolPiper? We'll take you to the download.

[Open repository →](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/fetch)

Publisher

[Anthropic](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers)

License

MIT

Transport

Local subprocess

Tools

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## What this server does

The Fetch MCP server is a lightweight URL fetcher that strips boilerplate and returns markdown your model can actually read. Pair it with a search server for one-stop research.

## Tools included

-   fetch
    
    Fetch a URL and return its content as markdown.
    

The authoritative list comes from the server's tools/list at runtime. This catalog entry may lag the upstream until the next ToolPiper release.

## Install in ToolPiper

ToolPiper handles the JSON configuration. Click Install, fill in any required tokens, and the server is ready in your chat.

Install Fetch in ToolPiper

Don't have ToolPiper? We'll take you to the download.

## Install in another client

Install in another MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, Cline)

Claude Desktop Cursor Continue Cline

Add this to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude\_desktop\_config.json.

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

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## Example prompts

-   "Fetch the README at https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers and tell me what new servers shipped recently."
    
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-   "Get the contents of https://blog.modelpiper.com/release-notes and summarize the latest entry."
    
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-   "Pull the docs at https://example.com/api and extract the rate-limit headers."
    
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## Security notes

The server fetches any URL you ask it to. It does not authenticate; private URLs requiring login won't work. Treat returned content as untrusted input.

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