UK Data: Web reader MCP Server

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answering

UK Data: Web reader is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

Read any web page as clean markdown or text with title, description and links

Uptime history 69 hours of history

69 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

116 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check UK Data: Web reader every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add web-reader --transport http https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/web-reader

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/web-reader

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.web-reader]
url = "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/web-reader"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-reader": {
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/web-reader"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "web-reader": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/web-reader"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

url

read_url

Fetch a public web page and return its main content as markdown (or plain text), with title, description and links. (cost: 2 credits)

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/web-reader	streamable-http	answering	80 ms	8 min ago

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53 installs/wk local only

UK Data: Web reader — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can UK Data: Web reader do?

It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: read_url. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is UK Data: Web reader working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 116 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect UK Data: Web reader?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does UK Data: Web reader need an API key?

No. UK Data: Web reader completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is UK Data: Web reader?

It answers our handshake in 116 ms on average, which is faster than 92% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.