Web Fetch MCP Server

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Web Fetch MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 32 installs a week from npm. Last commit 18 Sep 2025.

MCP server for web content fetching, summarizing, comparing, and extracting information

No commits for 13 months.

Installs per day peak 13 · avg 5 · +35% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · web-fetch-mcp

Stars

0 open issues

18 Sep 2025

Last commit

no releases in 90 days

Apache-2.0

License

TypeScript

This one has been quiet for a while

Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add web-fetch-mcp -e 'GEMINI_API_KEY=<GEMINI_API_KEY>' -- npx -y web-fetch-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-fetch-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "web-fetch-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "<GEMINI_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.web-fetch-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "web-fetch-mcp"]
env = { GEMINI_API_KEY = "<GEMINI_API_KEY>" }

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-fetch-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "web-fetch-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "<GEMINI_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "web-fetch-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "web-fetch-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "<GEMINI_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own value in place of <GEMINI_API_KEY> (Your Gemini API key for the service). The author’s registry entry marks it as required.

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: HTTP_PROXY (Your proxy for the gemini api service), HTTPS_PROXY (Your proxy for the gemini api service).

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Web Fetch MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Web Fetch MCP?

Web Fetch MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package web-fetch-mcp was installed 32 times last week.

Is Web Fetch MCP still maintained?

No commits for 13 months. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Web Fetch MCP?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls web-fetch-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Web Fetch MCP?

The npm package web-fetch-mcp was installed 32 times in the last week. Week over week that is +35%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Web Fetch MCP open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript and 9 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.