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SmartFetch MCP Server

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SmartFetch is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 14 Sep 2026.

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

Uptime history 23 days of history · worst day 99%
23 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
198 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 14 Sep 2026

What changed 3

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

27 Aug 3 tools appeared extract_webpage_text, render_webpage, webpage_to_markdown

What the code does

We read the source, 22 h ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 3dff92dd89df

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(

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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 2 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add smartfetch --transport http https://smartfetch-production-ea53.up.railway.app/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smartfetch": {
      "url": "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
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smartfetch": {
      "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
Read, fetch, scrape, or extract any public webpage or URL for AI agents. Returns clean text, Markdown, links, and metadata, with automatic browser rendering for JavaScript-heavy pages.
webpage_to_markdown
Convert a public webpage or URL into clean Markdown for AI agents, with core retrieval metadata.
extract
extract_webpage_text
Extract clean readable text from a public webpage or URL for AI agents, with core retrieval metadata.
render
render_webpage
Browser-render a public JavaScript-heavy webpage or URL, then return clean text, Markdown, links, and metadata.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://smartfetch-production-ea53.up.railway.app/mcp streamable-http answering 186 ms 2 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 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 198 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
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 with the file path 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.
How fast is SmartFetch?
It answers our handshake in 198 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
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.