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SmartFetch MCP Server

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SmartFetch is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 10 Oct 2026.

Paid fallback for public webpages: clean text, Markdown, links, metadata, and JavaScript rendering.

Uptime history 74 days of history · worst day 0%
74 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 92 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
187 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 10 Oct 2026

What changed 8

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 27 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

10 Oct 4 tool descriptions were rewritten extract_webpage_text, fetch_webpage, render_webpage and 1 more
10 Oct a tool changed version
27 Aug 3 tools appeared extract_webpage_text, render_webpage, webpage_to_markdown

What the code does

We read the source, 7 d ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 995398eba69f

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs an external command smartfetch/browser_fetch.py:74
            subprocess.run(

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add smartfetch --transport http https://smartfetch-production-ea53.up.railway.app/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://smartfetch-production-ea53.up.railway.app/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.smartfetch]
url = "https://smartfetch-production-ea53.up.railway.app/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smartfetch": {
      "url": "https://smartfetch-production-ea53.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "smartfetch": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://smartfetch-production-ea53.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

webpage
fetch_webpage
Temporarily unavailable in emergency fail-closed mode; webpage retrieval cannot execute.
webpage_to_markdown
Temporarily unavailable in emergency fail-closed mode; Markdown retrieval cannot execute.
extract
extract_webpage_text
Temporarily unavailable in emergency fail-closed mode; text extraction cannot execute.
render
render_webpage
Browser rendering is temporarily unavailable in emergency fail-closed mode.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://smartfetch-production-ea53.up.railway.app/mcp streamable-http answering 187 ms 1 min ago

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SmartFetch — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can SmartFetch do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: extract_webpage_text, fetch_webpage, render_webpage, webpage_to_markdown. 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 SmartFetch working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 187 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists SmartFetch as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect SmartFetch?
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 SmartFetch need an API key?
No. SmartFetch completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
Is SmartFetch open source?
We cannot say either way: written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.