Read URL MCP
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Extracts web content from a URL and converts it to clean Markdown format.
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- Author
- takada-at
- Categories
- Web Scraping, Other
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Setup
Install Read URL MCP in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).
Repository: https://github.com/takada-at/read_url_mcp
Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides URL reading capabilities, extracting web content and converting it to clean Markdown format.
- Fetch web content from HTTP/HTTPS URLs
- Extract main content using readability algorithm
- Convert HTML to clean Markdown format
- Configurable timeout and content size limits
{ "mcpServers": { "read_url_mcp": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "run", "--directory", "<directory>", "read_url_mcp/mcp_server" ], "env": { "PYTHONPATH": "<directory>" } } } }
uv run python read_url_mcp/mcp_server.py
- readURLMarkdown(url: str)- Fetches URL content and returns it as Markdown
uv run ruff check # Lint code uv run ruff format # Format code uv run ruff check --fix # Auto-fix issues
- mcp[cli]- MCP framework
- requests- HTTP client
- readability-lxml- Content extraction
- html2text- HTML to Markdown conversion
- Timeout: 30 seconds
- Max content length: 1MB
- User agent: my-mcp-tools/1.0
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