Peek — URL metadata & Markdown MCP Server

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not responding

Peek — URL metadata & Markdown is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 2 tools.

Link-preview metadata and clean page-to-Markdown for any public URL. No install.

Uptime history 42 days of history · worst day 0%

42 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

483 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Peek — URL metadata & Markdown does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add peek --transport http https://smeltworks.com/peek/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "peek": {
      "url": "https://smeltworks.com/peek/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.peek]
url = "https://smeltworks.com/peek/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "peek": {
      "url": "https://smeltworks.com/peek/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "peek": {
      "url": "https://smeltworks.com/peek/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.

peek

peek_markdown

Fetch a public web page and return its main content as clean Markdown, with navigation, scripts and styling stripped. Use this to actually read a page.

peek_preview

Get link-preview metadata for a public web page: title, description, OpenGraph image, site name, favicon, canonical URL. Fast and cheap — use this when you need to describe or card a link, not read it.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://smeltworks.com/peek/mcp	streamable-http	answering	483 ms	2 min ago

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Peek — URL metadata & Markdown — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Peek — URL metadata & Markdown do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: peek_markdown, peek_preview. 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 Peek — URL metadata & Markdown 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 483 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Peek — URL metadata & Markdown 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 Peek — URL metadata & Markdown?

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 Peek — URL metadata & Markdown need an API key?

No. Peek — URL metadata & Markdown 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.