Context Retrieval API MCP Server

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answering

Context Retrieval API is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Fetch public web pages live and get clean Markdown, text or HTML.

Uptime history 18 hours of history

18 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

67 of 67 checks

Tools

read from the server

241 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Context Retrieval API 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 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add contextretrieval --transport http https://contextretrieval.net/mcp

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

https://contextretrieval.net/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.contextretrieval]
url = "https://contextretrieval.net/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contextretrieval": {
      "url": "https://contextretrieval.net/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "contextretrieval": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://contextretrieval.net/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

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

account

get_account_status

Check the remaining credits, plan and rate limit for the connected Context Retrieval API account. Use before large batches of fetches.

page

get_page_contents

Fetch a public web page live and return its main content as clean Markdown, plain text or HTML. Use this when you have a specific URL and need its current content. Works best on articles, docs, product and listing pages. Does not log in, submit forms or execute JavaScript (yet).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://contextretrieval.net/mcp	streamable-http	answering	242 ms	7 min ago

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Context Retrieval API — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Context Retrieval API do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_account_status, get_page_contents. 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 Context Retrieval API working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 67 of 67 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 241 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Context Retrieval API?

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 Context Retrieval API need an API key?

No. Context Retrieval API completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Context Retrieval API?

It answers our handshake in 241 ms on average, which is faster than 59% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.