Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data MCP Server

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Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 12 tools.

Free web lookups; PDF to Markdown, audio transcripts, screenshots, WHOIS/DNS paid per call via x402.

Uptime history 5 days of history

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

84 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data 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 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add web-research --transport http https://tools.adamhaleworks.workers.dev/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-research": {
      "url": "https://tools.adamhaleworks.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.web-research]
url = "https://tools.adamhaleworks.workers.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-research": {
      "url": "https://tools.adamhaleworks.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-research": {
      "url": "https://tools.adamhaleworks.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 12

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

document

document_to_markdown

Convert one document at a public URL to Markdown from its text layer: PDF, Word DOCX, Excel XLSX/XLSM/XLSB/XLS, OpenDocument ODS/ODT, CSV, HTML, XML or Apple Numbers, up to 10 MB, Markdown up to 250,000 characters. Not OCR: scanned PDFs, images, PPTX and encrypted files are refused and not charged. Paid only: $0.004 USDC per file. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

domain

domain_intel

Who a domain is registered with and since when (RDAP: registrar, created, expires, age, status, nameservers, DNSSEC), its DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CAA) and email setup (provider, SPF and DMARC policy). No registrant personal data. Paid only: up to 3 domains per call for $0.003 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

page

page_to_markdown

Read web pages: returns each page's main content as clean Markdown without navigation, scripts or ads (headings, lists, absolute links, tables, code blocks), plus title, description, language, canonical URL and word count; up to 100,000 characters per page. Does not get past bot walls. Paid only: up to 3 URLs per call for $0.002 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

robots

robots_txt_check

Crawl preflight: whether each user agent may fetch each URL under the site's robots.txt (RFC 9309, longest match, '*' fallback), with crawl-delay, the sitemaps robots.txt lists and whether the site publishes /llms.txt. Default agents: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Googlebot, Bingbot, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider and *. Paid only: up to 5 URLs per call for $0.001 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

rss

rss_to_json

Read news feeds or blogs as clean JSON: accepts feed URLs or plain site URLs (finds the feed via <link rel=alternate>), normalises RSS 0.9x/2.0, RDF, Atom and JSON Feed to one item schema (title, url, publishedAt, author, categories, summary), up to 100 items per feed. Free for 1 feed; up to 5 feeds per call cost $0.003 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

seo

seo_meta_tags_check

On-page SEO audit of web pages: title and meta description lengths, canonical, robots/noindex and X-Robots-Tag, H1/H2, hreflang, Open Graph, Twitter card and JSON-LD rich-result checks, with machine-readable issue codes. Free for 1 URL when the free web tool is enabled; up to 3 URLs per call cost $0.004 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

sitemap

sitemap_urls

List the pages of a website from its sitemaps: finds them via robots.txt or common paths, follows sitemap indexes, reads gzip, text and feed sitemaps, returns URLs with lastmod. Free: up to 2,000 URLs from 12 sitemap files. With bulk=true: up to 5,000 URLs from 20 files for $0.004 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

tech

tech_stack_lookup

Detect what a website is built with: CMS, frameworks, analytics, CDN, hosting, email and DNS providers (MX, SPF, DMARC) and a security-header grade, from one fetch of its homepage. Free for 1 domain per call (10 free calls a minute per IP); 2-3 domains in one call cost $0.005 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

ted

ted_tender_search

Search EU public procurement notices (tenders, contract notices, awards) on TED through the official API v3: keywords, optional buyer country and open-deadline filter, newest first. Free: the 25 newest matches. With bulk=true or page: 100 notices per page, pages 1-50, for $0.002 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

transcribe

transcribe_short_audio

Transcribe one short audio file (direct public URL to MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC or WebM; one file up to 2 MB and 20 minutes) with Whisper large-v3-turbo, or translate it to English: text, timed segments, WebVTT and detected language. No YouTube or social media pages. Paid only: $0.01 USDC per file. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

url

url_status_check

Check whether links are alive: HTTP status, every redirect hop, final URL and a classification (ok, redirect, broken, restricted, blocked_by_site, disallowed_by_robots_txt, timeout). HEAD first, GET to confirm errors. Free for 1 URL when the free web tool is enabled; up to 10 URLs per call cost $0.003 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

website

website_screenshot

Screenshot one public web page in a headless browser: desktop (1440x900) or mobile (390x844) viewport, PNG or JPEG, returned as an image. Viewport only, no logins or scripts; follows robots.txt and does not get past bot walls; at most one screenshot every 10 seconds across all callers. Paid only: $0.01 USDC per page. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://tools.adamhaleworks.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	52 ms	0 min ago

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Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data do?

It exposes 12 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: document_to_markdown, domain_intel, page_to_markdown, robots_txt_check, rss_to_json, seo_meta_tags_check and 6 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 →

Is Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data 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 84 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data?

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 Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data need an API key?

No. Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 12 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data?

It answers our handshake in 84 ms on average, which is faster than 88% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.