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url2md MCP Server

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url2md is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. 232 installs a week from npm.

PDFs, JavaScript pages and ordinary HTML as clean Markdown. Follows robots.txt per RFC 9309.

Installs per day peak 190 · avg 27 · +221% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 9 days of history · worst day 95%
9 days agonow
96.7%
Uptime 24h
88 of 91 checks
Tools
hidden behind auth
476 ms
Response time
average over 24h
232
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

url2md does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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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 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://url2md.io/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://url2md.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://url2md.io/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://url2md.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://url2md.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: URL2MD_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE (Path to a file holding the 0x-prefixed private key of a wallet with USDC on Base. Preferred over URL2MD_PRIVATE_KEY: a path is not a secret, and a key on a command line is visible to every process on the machine. One of the two key variables is required.), URL2MD_PRIVATE_KEY (The key itself: 0x followed by 64 hex characters. Use URL2MD_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE instead where you can. One of the two key variables is required.), URL2MD_MAX_PRICE_USD (The most this server will commit for one call, in USD, across every payment round of that call. A tolled page takes two rounds and this ceiling covers both.), URL2MD_MAX_SPEND_USD (The most this server will commit in total for as long as the process runs. Restarting resets it.), URL2MD_BASE_URL (The url2md deployment to call. Must be https (only a loopback address may be plain http), because this is the origin every 402 is checked against.), URL2MD_TIMEOUT_MS (How long to wait for one conversion, in milliseconds. The default covers the service's own worst case: 20 s of fetching plus 55 s of headless render. Do not lower it to 30 s — that is the navigation timeout inside the browser, and on a page that needed a browser your payment has already settled by the time the render starts.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://url2md.io/mcp streamable-http sign-in 127 ms 3 min ago

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url2md — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for url2md?
The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 96.7% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.
Is url2md working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 88 of 91 checks got a reply (96.7%), average response time 476 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect url2md?
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. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.
How do you sign in to url2md?
No API key is involved. url2md answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.
How fast is url2md?
It answers our handshake in 476 ms on average, which is faster than 32% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use url2md?
The npm package @url2md-io/mcp was installed 232 times in the last week. Week over week that is +221%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.