Fetch (Mozilla Readability)
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Integrates Mozilla's Readability algorithm to extract and transform webpage content into clean, LLM-optimized Markdown.
Details
- Author
- emzimmer
- Repository
- emzimmer/server-moz-readability
- GitHub stars
- 13
- Downloads
- 509
- License
- MIT License
- Categories
- Web Scraping, Other, Productivity, AI, Project Management, Infrastructure
- Tags
- #web
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Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
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Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
Fetch (Mozilla Readability)Command (node, npx, python, etc.)npxArguments-
Argument 1
-y -
Argument 2
@highlight/mcp-server
Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
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Argument 1
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"fetch (mozilla readability)": {
"env": {},
"args": [
"-y",
"@highlight/mcp-server"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}Linux
{
"env": [],
"args": [
"-y",
"@highlight/mcp-server"
],
"command": "npx"
}Macos
{
"env": [],
"args": [
"-y",
"@highlight/mcp-server"
],
"command": "npx"
}Windows
{
"env": [],
"args": [
"/c",
"npx",
"-y",
"@highlight/mcp-server"
],
"command": "cmd"
}Extracts and transforms webpage content into clean, LLM-optimized Markdown using Mozilla's Readability algorithm.
Anmodel context protocol (MCP)server that extracts and transforms webpage content into clean, LLM-optimized Markdown. Returns article title, main content, excerpt, byline and site name. UsesMozilla's Readability algorithmto remove ads, navigation, footers and non-essential elements while preserving the core content structure.More about MCP.
- Removes ads, navigation, footers and other non-essential content
- Converts clean HTML into well-formatted Markdown (also uses Turndown)
- Returns article metadata (title, excerpt, byline, site name)
- Handles errors gracefully
Unlike simple fetch requests, this server:
- Extracts only relevant content using Mozilla's Readability algorithm
- Eliminates noise like ads, popups, and navigation menus
- Reduces token usage by removing unnecessary HTML/CSS
- Provides consistent Markdown formatting for better LLM processing
- Includes useful metadata about the content
To install Mozilla Readability Parser for Claude Desktop automatically viaSmithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install server-moz-readability --client claude
Fetches and transforms webpage content into clean Markdown.
{ "url": { "type": "string", "description": "The website URL to parse", "required": true } }
{ "title": "Article title", "content": "Markdown content...", "metadata": { "excerpt": "Brief summary", "byline": "Author information", "siteName": "Source website name" } }
Add to yourclaude_desktop_config.json:
{ "mcpServers": { "readability": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "server-moz-readability"] } } }
- @mozilla/readability - Content extraction
- turndown - HTML to Markdown conversion
- jsdom - DOM parsing
- axios - HTTP requests
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