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NetLens for VS Code

io.github.pzalutski-pixel/netlens

Read any web page as clean, ad-stripped Markdown past robots.txt and bot blocks, plus web search.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install NetLens in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "netlens-search-engine",
      "description": "NETLENS_SEARCH_ENGINE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "netlens-searxng-url",
      "description": "NETLENS_SEARXNG_URL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "netlens": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "netlens-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NETLENS_SEARCH_ENGINE": "${input:netlens-search-engine}",
        "NETLENS_SEARXNG_URL": "${input:netlens-searxng-url}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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