Fetch (Web Content & YouTube Transcripts)
Fetches web pages and YouTube video transcripts, converting HTML content to readable Markdown format for analysis and reference.
Fetches web content and YouTube video transcripts, converting HTML to Markdown and extracting timestamps for reference in conversations.
What it does
- Fetch web pages and convert HTML to Markdown
- Extract YouTube video transcripts with timestamps
- Retrieve text content from URLs
- Process image content from web pages
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About Fetch (Web Content & YouTube Transcripts)
Fetch (Web Content & YouTube Transcripts) is a community-built MCP server published by egoist that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Fetch is a web scraping tool that extracts web content and YouTube transcripts, converting HTML to Markdown with accurat It is categorized under search web, other. This server exposes 2 tools that AI clients can invoke during conversations and coding sessions.
How to install
You can install Fetch (Web Content & YouTube Transcripts) in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
License
Fetch (Web Content & YouTube Transcripts) is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
Tools (2)
Fetch a URL, support HTML, text, and image
Fetch transcript for a Youtube video URL
fetch-mcp
An MCP server for fetching URLs / Youtube video transcript.
This project is sponsored by ChatWise, an all-in-one LLM chatbot with first-class MCP support.
Usage
# stdio server
npx -y fetch-mcp
# sse server
npx -y fetch-mcp --sse
# streamable http server at /mcp
npx -y fetch-mcp --http
# custom endpoint
npx -y fetch-mcp --http /my-mcp
Tools
fetch_url
Fetch URL, can return HTML or Markdown (default).
fetch_youtube_transcript
Fetch Youtube transcript.
License
MIT.
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