Hydrafetch is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 13 tools.
Turn any URL into clean Markdown and structured data. Scrape, crawl, search and extract.
Uptime history
57 days of history · worst day 93%
57 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
13
Tools
read from the server
164 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
What changed 27
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 31 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
10 Oct
2 tool descriptions were rewritten3 times that day
batch, styleguide
10 Oct
2 tools changed the parameters they ask for
batch, styleguide
1 Oct
9 tool descriptions were rewritten
batch, batch_status, brand and 6 more
1 Oct
2 tools changed the parameters they ask for4 times that day
batch_status, crawl_status
27 Sep
a tool changed the parameters it asks for
extract
7 Sep
3 tools changed the parameters they ask for
batch, crawl, search
3 Sep
4 tools appeared
batch, batch_status, crawl and 1 more
31 Aug
a tool changed the parameters it asks for
screenshot
and 3 more, back to 31 August 2026
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Hydrafetch 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 12 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add web --transport http https://api.hydrafetch.com/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"web": {
"url": "https://api.hydrafetch.com/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.web]
url = "https://api.hydrafetch.com/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"web": {
"url": "https://api.hydrafetch.com/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"web": {
"url": "https://api.hydrafetch.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 13
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
batch
batch
Scrape a list of URLs you already have, such as pages found with map. Waits for the batch to finish and returns the first page of results in the same call, so a short list needs one call; read further pages, or a batch still running, with batch_status. Each URL scraped costs 1 credit.
batch_status
Read a batch started with batch: its progress, and one page of results in the order the URLs were sent. When nextOffset is not null, pass it as offset to read the next page of results.
crawl
crawl
Discover and scrape the pages of a website as one background job, following its links from a starting URL. Returns a crawl id straight away; read progress and results with crawl_status. Each page scraped costs 1 credit, so set limit to what you need.
crawl_status
Read a crawl started with crawl: its progress, and one page of the scraped results. When nextOffset is not null, pass it as offset to read the next page of results.
brand
brand
A company's brand from its domain: logos for light and dark backgrounds, its colours, name, description and social profiles. Use it to answer what a company is or how it presents itself.
extract
extract
Pull specific fields out of one or more pages as JSON, shaped by a JSON schema or described in a prompt. Use it when you need values such as prices, names or dates rather than the whole page text.
images
images
Harvest a page's images with their metadata, without rendering it. Cheaper than a screenshot and returns the source images rather than a picture of the page.
logo
logo
A company's logo as a directly embeddable image URL, chosen for the background you name. Use this rather than brand when the mark is all you need: it costs a fifth as much and returns one asset instead of the whole record.
map
map
List the URLs on a website, found through its sitemap and links, without fetching their content. Use it to see which pages exist before choosing which to scrape.
scrape
scrape
Fetch one web page and return its main content as clean markdown, with optional HTML, links or structured data. Use it to read a page whose URL you already have. For many pages of one site use crawl; for a list of URLs use batch.
screenshot
screenshot
Render a page in a real browser and capture a PNG, returning its public URL. Use when the question is what the page looks like rather than what it says.
search
search
Search the web and return ranked results: title, url and snippet. Set scrapeResults to also fetch each result as markdown, at 1 extra credit per page.
styleguide
styleguide
A site's design tokens read from computed styles in a real browser: colours by role with contrast ratios, the dark theme colours when the site has one, the type scale, corner radius and button styling, how panels, the header bar and panel titles are drawn, plus ready-made CSS, Tailwind and shadcn/ui stylesheets. Values defined through CSS variables come back resolved to the hex actually painted. To recreate how a site looks rather than only its tokens, take a screenshot of the page too.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://api.hydrafetch.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 159 ms | 12 min ago |
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Hydrafetch — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Hydrafetch do?
It exposes 13 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: batch, batch_status, brand, crawl, crawl_status, extract and 7 more. 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 →
What is Hydrafetch mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around crawl and batch. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Hydrafetch 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 164 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Hydrafetch?
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 Hydrafetch need an API key?
No. Hydrafetch completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 13 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Hydrafetch?
It answers our handshake in 164 ms on average, which is faster than 71% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.