web fetcher for VS Code

io.github.vojtisprime11/web-fetcher

Turns any web page into clean Markdown, page metadata and classified links for LLMs.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install web fetcher in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "web-fetcher-timeout-ms",
      "description": "WEB_FETCHER_TIMEOUT_MS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "web-fetcher-max-bytes",
      "description": "WEB_FETCHER_MAX_BYTES",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "web-fetcher-user-agent",
      "description": "WEB_FETCHER_USER_AGENT",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "web-fetcher-allow-private-hosts",
      "description": "WEB_FETCHER_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "web-fetcher-respect-robots",
      "description": "WEB_FETCHER_RESPECT_ROBOTS",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "web-fetcher": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-server-web-fetcher"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WEB_FETCHER_TIMEOUT_MS": "${input:web-fetcher-timeout-ms}",
        "WEB_FETCHER_MAX_BYTES": "${input:web-fetcher-max-bytes}",
        "WEB_FETCHER_USER_AGENT": "${input:web-fetcher-user-agent}",
        "WEB_FETCHER_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS": "${input:web-fetcher-allow-private-hosts}",
        "WEB_FETCHER_RESPECT_ROBOTS": "${input:web-fetcher-respect-robots}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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